Webwork - 3:20 pm on Sep 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

I've known for some time that there's a healthy core of intelligent life residing within the operations of DMOZ. I've seen signs of that intelligence many times, right here in this forum.

On the PR front this is the first sign of intelligent life I've seen in a long time. Hopefully this signifies not only a new level of "corporate commitment" but also a new era of openness. A bit of public laundry cleaning - from the inside out - wouldn't be all bad in the era of the Cluetrain Manifesto.

If so, let's hope there's more to come. Let's hope that DMOZ gets the disctinction between advertising - what one says about one's self - and marketing, i.e. what the market or public dialogue is saying about "the company".

The ODP is a project worthy of revival/reinvigoration. This is a small sign of a health and fitness program IF it's a sign that AOL gets that the conversation matters. For example, there will always be ODP detractors, just like there are WikiPedia detractors. It would be nice to see more public comment about efforts are underway to deprive detractors of new material.

Beside, Wikipedia could use some competition. ;)

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[edited by: Webwork at 1:06 pm (utc) on Sep. 26, 2007]