Nov 20th 2009 8:19PM
What is in the news?
Hey everyone,
As we've highlighted in the past, directory searches can be very helpful if you're looking for a broad overview of a general topic. Have you ever thought about how you might be able to use this to learn more about current events? Editor glippitt has put together an article that highlights some of the excellent current events categories available in DMOZ.
Emily
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According to the front page of the US version of Google News recently, the top stories were Obama's trip to China (what's their government been saying and doing lately?), Sarah Palin's new book (what did she say about the notorious Katie Couric interviews?), and unilateral Palestinian steps (whatever happened to the Roadmap?). Want some background information to help inform your views on these topics? Check out the relevant DMOZ categories:
Barack Obama
China
Sarah Palin
Palestinian Territory
Israel-Palestine Conflict
Under World News there was also the UN food summit (what else is the UN doing these days?) and climate change (isn't something happening in Copenhagen soon?):
United Nations
Climate change
U.S. news included the New Jersey car license plate issue (is the state government that desperate for money?) and trying the terrorist suspects in NYC (how does the civilian court system work, and how does it differ from the military court option?):
New Jersey government
War on Terrorism
Judicial Branch
U.S. Military Law
Medical companies (how are they reacting to healthcare reform?), the Japanese economy (is it recovering?), and Asian stocks (how have their stock markets been doing?) were in the Business news:
Healthcare Business
Japan Business and Economy
Asia Business and Economy
Sci/Tech included NASA and the Mars Rover (what else is going on in the space program?), Super Mario Bros. Wii (how many Mario Bros. games are there, anyway?), and digital books (which is the best e-book reader for my mother?):
NASA
Mario Games
Digital Books
Entertainment news was about the Oscars (didn't they change the format this year?) and The Twilight Saga: New Moon film (what's the history of vampires in art?):
Academy Awards
Vampires
Sports news centered on football (where can I find some official gear or memorabilia to give someone?) and Nascar (where are the fan sites, chats and forums?):
Football
NASCAR
2010 Winter Olympics
Health news focused on healthcare legislation (what's that public option all about?), the swine flu (who's most at risk?), and the effectiveness of popular cholesterol drugs (what about the drugs I'm taking?):
U.S. Healthcare Reform
A-H1N1 (Swine flu)
Drugs and Medications
Our editors are from countries all over the world, with varied backgrounds and interests. What we all have in common is a desire to volunteer some of our time to research topics for the benefit of our users. Good as search engines are these days, the efforts of human editors to find, review, categorize, annotate - and cull! - websites on a topic can often save you time and effort. Maybe we'll help you find sites which aren't 'popular' enough to rank high in the search engine results, but are especially informative. Maybe we'll build a sub-category which you hadn't even thought about. Maybe you'll follow one of our links to a related category. However you use what we've created, remember we did this for you. Not for website owners or website designers or SEO specialists, but for people using the web to improve their knowledge and understanding, and to find what they're looking for.
In this season of thanksgiving, whether you celebrate it as a national holiday or through your general thoughts, please take a moment to reflect and give thanks for all the volunteers in the world donating their time and efforts to help others. DMOZ is just one of these efforts, but it's one we as Dmoz editors care about very much. Happy Thanksgiving!
As we've highlighted in the past, directory searches can be very helpful if you're looking for a broad overview of a general topic. Have you ever thought about how you might be able to use this to learn more about current events? Editor glippitt has put together an article that highlights some of the excellent current events categories available in DMOZ.
Emily
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According to the front page of the US version of Google News recently, the top stories were Obama's trip to China (what's their government been saying and doing lately?), Sarah Palin's new book (what did she say about the notorious Katie Couric interviews?), and unilateral Palestinian steps (whatever happened to the Roadmap?). Want some background information to help inform your views on these topics? Check out the relevant DMOZ categories:
Barack Obama
China
Sarah Palin
Palestinian Territory
Israel-Palestine Conflict
Under World News there was also the UN food summit (what else is the UN doing these days?) and climate change (isn't something happening in Copenhagen soon?):
United Nations
Climate change
U.S. news included the New Jersey car license plate issue (is the state government that desperate for money?) and trying the terrorist suspects in NYC (how does the civilian court system work, and how does it differ from the military court option?):
New Jersey government
War on Terrorism
Judicial Branch
U.S. Military Law
Medical companies (how are they reacting to healthcare reform?), the Japanese economy (is it recovering?), and Asian stocks (how have their stock markets been doing?) were in the Business news:
Healthcare Business
Japan Business and Economy
Asia Business and Economy
Sci/Tech included NASA and the Mars Rover (what else is going on in the space program?), Super Mario Bros. Wii (how many Mario Bros. games are there, anyway?), and digital books (which is the best e-book reader for my mother?):
NASA
Mario Games
Digital Books
Entertainment news was about the Oscars (didn't they change the format this year?) and The Twilight Saga: New Moon film (what's the history of vampires in art?):
Academy Awards
Vampires
Sports news centered on football (where can I find some official gear or memorabilia to give someone?) and Nascar (where are the fan sites, chats and forums?):
Football
NASCAR
2010 Winter Olympics
Health news focused on healthcare legislation (what's that public option all about?), the swine flu (who's most at risk?), and the effectiveness of popular cholesterol drugs (what about the drugs I'm taking?):
U.S. Healthcare Reform
A-H1N1 (Swine flu)
Drugs and Medications
Our editors are from countries all over the world, with varied backgrounds and interests. What we all have in common is a desire to volunteer some of our time to research topics for the benefit of our users. Good as search engines are these days, the efforts of human editors to find, review, categorize, annotate - and cull! - websites on a topic can often save you time and effort. Maybe we'll help you find sites which aren't 'popular' enough to rank high in the search engine results, but are especially informative. Maybe we'll build a sub-category which you hadn't even thought about. Maybe you'll follow one of our links to a related category. However you use what we've created, remember we did this for you. Not for website owners or website designers or SEO specialists, but for people using the web to improve their knowledge and understanding, and to find what they're looking for.
In this season of thanksgiving, whether you celebrate it as a national holiday or through your general thoughts, please take a moment to reflect and give thanks for all the volunteers in the world donating their time and efforts to help others. DMOZ is just one of these efforts, but it's one we as Dmoz editors care about very much. Happy Thanksgiving!
1. I have suggested my url last week, but till now, I can search it in any SEO, who can help me on this, thanks very much.
Posted at 4:03AM on Nov 22nd 2009 by batteryshop8
2. first of all, many thanks for all the volunteers.. and wish you all "happy thanksgiving"..time is valuable but you all still find sometimes to put all info for other.. i am very appreciate )
Posted at 11:34PM on Nov 22nd 2009 by pla
3. @emily: What's that "we made the directory for you" thing at the end of this post? It's funny and has nothing to do with the subject of this message. Who is supposed to use the directory?
Well, I think your are using the blog to answer claims made in other sites, like digital point forum. What a shame.
I don't reckon DMOZ is a helpful directory today. I have used it a couple of times to investigate about certain subjects. Because I though it would narrow the amount of information to check. At least that's what I expect from a directory. But my experience wasn't pleasant. I ended up reaching a lot of outdated sites. And websites lacking original content. After realizing that I was missing something I went to Google and completed my research there.
At that point I found a lot of information (new data) DMOZ was missing. And such data was published in websites with more than five years on-line.
My conclusion is DMOZ fails to be a good source of information as its categories get outdated too quickly. And they use to lack relevant websites (at least in the areas I checked). Some categories seem to be biased.
Posted at 1:03PM on Nov 23rd 2009 by CAPRI
4. I just want to know how dmoz can accept our site as I have submitted it for several times.
Thanks.
Posted at 12:41AM on Nov 24th 2009 by Jimi
5. Commenters who are posting 'when will our site be listed' posts, can find information at http://www.resource-zone.com/forum/faq.php
The standard answer is that we are not a listing service, the editors volunteer their time to edit in areas that they believe will improve the directory.
In one area you may be listed swiftly because an editor has decided to look after it (their home town or hobby) or because you were lucky and there has been a group effort.
In another area, the wait can be years because of the large amount of spam in the area which puts editors off (after all they want to list sites, not spend their time deleting duplicate suggestions, suggestions of sites of types that we do not list or moving suggestions that have been dumped in the wrong category).
You may be unlucky in that the editors who normally keep an area up-to-date are on holiday, sick or have real-life activities that mean they cannot edit much for a time.
regards
regards
Posted at 9:30AM on Nov 24th 2009 by Eric-the-Bun
6. Apparently the DMOZ is abandoned. We've submitted our url several times in accordance with the rules and for the correct category but it never get listed.
Posted at 2:37PM on Nov 26th 2009 by Unihost Brasil - Servidores de hospedagem
7. DMOZ will be more powerful
Posted at 1:01AM on Nov 28th 2009 by readwiki
8. Hi,
This probably is not the right forum to ask this question, but since I do not know how else to interact with DMOZ, I ask this question here. My apologies.
I submitted a website I created for a client to DMOZ yesterday in the Reiki category, and suspect that I misspelt my email address. Would you be able to tell me who I need to contact to check and correct this? Or is there a way I can see the details I submitted to DMOZ?
Thanks a million, and sorry for the non-contextual comment..
Regards
Geetha
Posted at 5:08PM on Nov 30th 2009 by Geetha Ramachandran
9. Is it possible that the editors could be bias and not allow competitors ? I have submitted my site several times over the last year and a half it has a Google Page Rank of 3. It is full of informational content, and yet not considered.
Posted at 12:19PM on Dec 1st 2009 by Jamie
10. @Jamie
It's always possible, but unlikely, as many other editors could and do edit in that category.
This is something we hear quite often from site suggesters, but there could be other reasons we haven't accepted your site that are much more likely.
1. No editor has gotten around to reviewing it yet.
2. It isn't a site we think (in our opinion) that will make the category better.
3. The site doesn't have the unique content we're looking for.
As far as page rank goes, that's not something we care about, nor even consider.
It's most likely the first reason, I strongly encourage you to apply to become the editor for that category. There's absolutely nothing wrong with you listing your own site in a category you edit in, as long as you follow our guidelines, the site belongs there, and you treat every site equally, including your own.
The Directory wants editors who have a passion for a topic, and who are honest. :)
Posted at 3:44PM on Dec 2nd 2009 by crowbar
11. I just want to know how dmoz can accept our site as I have submitted it for 2 years ago.
Thanks.
Posted at 5:37PM on Dec 2nd 2009 by Michael
12. @Michael
So does everyone else, but at this time the Directory has limited resources that are better spent on internal matters used to build the Directory.
If you read our other blog posts, you'll see that the Directory doesn't offer or provide a listing service for site owners, but merely accepts site suggestions from the general public for consideration as a help to editors.
Our main goal is to build useful categories using a variety of resources, public suggested sites are only one of those resources. Though they are appreciated, there is no guarantee that they are suggestions we will use.
Posted at 7:13AM on Dec 3rd 2009 by crowbar
13. I have already submitted my website in dmoz directory but yet I have not received any reply from dmoz so please suggest me how to resubmit my website & also before submit my website I was read all Terms of Use. Please suggest me …
Posted at 12:18AM on Dec 4th 2009 by john
14. Hi guys I have been trying to getmy site into DMOZ for a long time now! Today I tried to add it again and to my suprize the category my site belongs to does not aloow new URL submissions! "Weight Loss" And if I put my site in another categorie I know it will never belisted...
Posted at 8:09AM on Dec 4th 2009 by Sante
15. @Sante
Submit it to a category below that one, an editor in that area will know where to place it, if and when it is reviewed. Sites are placed where the Directory wants them placed, for organizational reasons.
If you go to the category page, and click on "Description", up in the right hand corner, that is the category description and it will tell you what kind of sites are and are not accepted there, and make suggestions for other possible categories.
If a category does not accept site suggestions, it's because very few sites are accepted there, and most sites get listed in the categories beneath it.
Posted at 9:10AM on Dec 4th 2009 by crowbar
16. @Sante
Sites are placed by their scope. The wider the scope is, the higher the category it gets placed in to cover it. To give you a simple example:
Multicolored Marbles might be a main category. Beneath it might be the following subcategories:
Blue Marbles
Red Marbles
Green Marbles
A site with blue and red marbles would be forced up to the higher category of Multicolored Marbles in order to cover its full scope.
Posted at 10:04AM on Dec 4th 2009 by crowbar
17. @Sante
Sorry to keep adding things, but this is important to explain.
Being listed in the higher category of Multicolored Marbles does not give you more exposure or importance, it merely defines a sites scope within the Directory.
If you have Blue Marbles, a person looking for that, will be directed to the subcategory "Blue Marbles" by the search engine, not the higher category "Multicolored Marbles", so it is unimportant where you are listed in the Directory itself, search engines will find you according to the search terms used by the searcher.
Posted at 10:04AM on Dec 4th 2009 by crowbar
18. Like many people who have commented, I have been submitting my site since May ... it's been 7 months now, and we are still not listed. Our site is a very unique, quality web site .. no reason why it would NOT be selected. Please help us out, this just doesn't make sense!
Posted at 11:09AM on Dec 4th 2009 by LeeAnn Gannett
19. @LeeAnn
Volunteer editors are very aware of your frustrations, but maybe it would make more sense to you if you realized that the Directory doesn't provide the kind of listing service that you're envisioning, and that for us, editing is a hobby we do in our spare time.
Editors build categories, and what you submitted was a site suggestion for our consideration. As a mid level editor myself, my editing dashboard has over 15,000 such suggestions, so perhaps you can imagine how many of these suggestions a higher level editor might be faced with.
A website is one of many tools that an entity could use, so it probably isn't a good idea, nor necessary to depend on it too heavily.
I've had several websites in the past, but found them unnecessary for my business's success, and have none now.
Suggesting your site multiple times just overwrites the submission date, it doesn't put multiple copies of it in, and some editors do review sites by date, so in those cases you'd be putting yourself at the end of the line.
Many of us don't look at the submission dates at all, as we're only interested in finding new, unique information on a site that would make the category itself more useful for an information seeker (which is whom we serve). Those are the sites we want to list, and why our guidelines say that not all sites will be accepted, and that no site has a "right" to be listed.
I'm sure your site is wonderful, but there are many such sites that we just don't need for the category.
Posted at 2:01PM on Dec 4th 2009 by crowbar
20. I have truly enjoyed going through the stuff and I really appreciate for sharing it across, thank you
Posted at 1:01AM on Dec 11th 2009 by Charles