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    About DMOZ  |  Open Directory Project Blog
    Since 1998, the Open Directory Project has been the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a passionate, global community of volunteer editors.
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    Mar 14th 2011 6:33PM
    Categories in the Spotlight, March Edition
    Hi Everyone!

    Today we're happy to bring you the first in an occasional series of posts which will highlight some DMOZ categories on popular, noteworthy and breaking news topics.

    Enjoy!
    Emily

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    The 2011 Christchurch Earthquake and the 2011 Cricket World Cup
    An aftershock of the 2010 earthquake, the quake that struck the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island at 12:51 pm on 22 February 2011 local time was more destructive and deadlier than its predecessor. The epicenter of the 6.3-magnitude quake was two kilometers west of the port village of Lyttelton and ten kilometers southeast of Christchurch. Hundreds have been reported dead or missing and estimates of the damage exceed NZ$16 billion.

    Editor bldarter has collected a comprehensive set of listings, including RSS feeds, covering the disaster and its aftermath: Christchurch NZ 2011.

    In an interview, Pete Dawson told Television New Zealand, "We'll rebuild. Of course, we will. We're resilient people, we're Cantabrians, you know. And we've got a World Cup to look forward to."

    As if on cue, bldarter also provides DMOZ's 2011 Cricket World Cup coverage.

    The 2010 Copiapo Mining Accident
    On August 5, 2010, the San Jose mine, 28 miles north of Copiapo, Chile collapsed trapping thirty-three miners 2,300 feet underground. On October 13, 2010, after sixty-nine days underground, all thirty-three miners were rescued.

    The story doesn't end there. The news media and a blogger bring us the miners' continuing stories: 2010 Copiapo Mining Accident.

    Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
    A musical comedy mini-series, it is the story of Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris) on his mission to become a true villain and join the elite Evil League of Evil, all while enamoured with his love interest Penny (Felicia Day), and impeded by his nemesis Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion). In addition to the mini-series there is a series of comic books, some of which centre around the supporting characters.

    Directed by Joss Whedon and written during the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike, the story was created as an inexpensive mini-series to show a professional production could be produced without the assistance of big corporations. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog was aired online July 15-19, 2008. Early the following year, a special in-character appearance aired during the 2009 Emmy Awards. Emmy Award winning, the series also won a Hugo award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form), the People's Choice Awards USA for Favorite Online Sensation, and seven Streamy Awards.

    Enjoy the category Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, created by editor shadowlight.

    Author Laura Hillenbrand
    Laura Hillenbrand's first book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (2001) tells the account of Seabiscuit, the unlikely champion racehorse owned by a former bicycle mechanic, trained by reticent "Silent Tom", ridden by a jockey beset by bad luck and life-threatening injuries. Seabiscuit captured the hearts of Americans during the Great Depression. The bestselling book was made into a movie in 2003.

    Hillenbrand's second book, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, released in November, 2010, tells the story of Louis Zamperini, a runner whose Olympic aspirations were interrupted by World War II. A bombadier on a B-42, he survived a plane crash and was adrift in the Pacific Ocean for 47 days before being captured and held as a prisoner of war until the war ended. The screen rights to the book, a New York Times bestseller and named top book of 2010 by Time, have been acquired by Universal Pictures.

    Find out more about this author who not only has written two bestsellers but done so while incapacitated by illness: Laura Hillenbrand

    Japan Earthquake

    Within hours of the disaster, editors had compiled listings of sites providing information about the earthquake and the tsunami it triggered, including news sites in Japan: Sendai, Japan 2011 and, thanks to afsitalia, 2011 - Séisme et tsunami au Japon.

    Posted by Emily  |  Comments (53)
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    Feb 4th 2011 12:50PM
    2010 Editor & Community Achievements
    International Growth & Expansion
    Expansion of World/Ukrainian
    During 2010, the number of listed sites in the World/Ukrainian branch increased by approximately 50% and Editor School was offered for the first time in this branch. Additionally, two editors attained high-level permissions in this area: one was granted access to the top level and the other received CatMod permissions.

    Editor Promotions in World/Russian
    The World/Russian branch promoted a team of senior editors (CatMod and Editall permission levels). These editors are ilyawww, raouf, tanstaaf1, vader and valeryiv. This is an important step for the Russian branch and ODP overall.

    Addition of New Language Branches
    Last year, salis created four new language branches including World/Kyrgyz, World/O'zbekcha, World/Türkmençe, and World/Uyghurche. In 2010, editors completed work to add World/Bashkir to the directory, and this language was activated in January 2011.

    Tool Development Work
    The editor community builds and maintains tools to help improve editing processes. During 2010, editors chaos127, development, jtaylorj, plantrob and rpfuller all worked to upgrade critical editor tools to keep directory processes running smoothly.

    Personal Editor Milestones
    Editor Anniversaries
    We had a number of editors who celebrated their tenth anniversary with the directory in 2010. Congratulations on a decade of service go out to the following editors: albinfo, anthronet, bkalafut, boni, eddiep, edseward, ikw, jdaw1, kokopeli, liszt, mcowley, mngolden, motsa, ock, pvgool, rd232, sammy, smoorefu, stn77 and sutty.

    Special Thanks...
    For the past two years, we've had several editors who have worked collaboratively with our AOL Staff team to provide an editorial perspective to our ongoing projects and processes. Photofox, plantrob and sthenbelle's contributions have been invaluable, and we're very grateful that they have given additional time and effort as editor liaisons.

    In Memoriam

    Sadly, editor cicka passed away in 2010. She was a Catmod in both World/Srpski and World/Magyar. Her contributions to the directory were numerous, and included opening a new Editor School for World/Srpski. She will be greatly missed.

    Posted by Emily  |  Comments (30)
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    Dec 22nd 2010 4:18PM
    Happy Holidays from DMOZ!
    Hi Everyone!

    The editor community has collaborated to prepare the following post to wish you Happy Holidays. We hope you enjoy and we look forward to seeing you in 2011!

    Emily

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    spacer Happy Holidays to all our users from the staff and editors at DMOZ.

    This time of year is often the time for reflection of the year gone by. The highs and the lows, the joys and the pain of events that have passed through our lives.

    There definitely has been some doom and gloom throughout the year especially
    with the global financial crisis but hopefully this may get better with the new
    year for all of us.

    Why not research the traditions of Christmas and New Year by diving in and
    looking at our categories and find out information about this time of year by
    simply flicking through the sites we have on offer. For example, by just going
    to Home/Cooking/Holidays/Christmas/ you will see "Eggnog@" This is a link to
    Home/Cooking/Beverages/Eggnog/. If you needed to know about Eggnog, we
    have 17 delicious recipes that will help get your festive party off to a great start.

    Here are some of our Yuletide categories:

    Home/Cooking/Holidays/Christmas/
    Home/Entertaining/Holidays/Christmas/
    Shopping/Holidays/Christmas
    Society/Holidays/Christmas
    Society/Holidays/New_Year
    Kids_and_Teens/People_and_Society/Holidays_and_Special_Days/Christmas/
    Kids_and_Teens/International/Français/Société/Fêtes/Noël/
    Kids_and_Teens/International/Español/Sociedad_y_gente/Festividades/Na vidad/
    Kids_and_Teens/International/Japanese/人と社会/一年の行事/ク リスマス/
    Kids_and_Teens/International/Česky/Lidé_a_společnost/Svátky_a_trad ice/Vánoce/
    World/Català/Arts_i_cultura/Tradicions/Festes_anuals/Nadal
    World/Chinese_Simplified/社会/节假日/圣诞节
    World/Česky/Společnost/Svátky_a_tradice/Vánoce
    World/Dansk/Samfund/Højtider_og_mærkedage/Jul
    World/Deutsch/Gesellschaft/Fest-_und_Feiertage/Weihnachten/
    World/Español/Sociedad/Festividades/Navidad
    World/Français/Société/Fêtes_et_jours_fériés/Noël
    World/Italiano/Società/Festività/Natale
    World/Japanese/社会/文化/祝祭日・年中行事/クリスマス
    World/Nederlands/Maatschappij/Feestdagen/Kerstmis
    World/Svenska/Samhälle/Helger/Jul
    World/Thai/สังคม/วันหยุดประจำปี/ คริสมาสต์/

    You will notice how much a global communtiy the ODP is by the way we tie
    categories of a similar nature together when they are when they are in completely
    different languages.

    Take for instance the category at Society/Holidays/Christmas. If you look under
    the "See Also" group of links (which are categories in the English language that
    are related to this one) you will see immediately that we have a similar category
    in 12 other languages. These languages are Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Czech,
    Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish and Thai.
    These links are here for your convenience and all you need to do to see what we
    have in the other language is click on its name and you will be taken right to it.
    If you know of some sites that could be added to any of the above categories, please
    feel free to suggest them, or even better why not think about joining us and become
    an editor. If you feel you would like to become part of the community just fill in the
    application form and we will have a look at it as soon as possible.

    As you can see from the number of categories above, and the plethora of different
    languages, DMOZ is a multi-cultural, worldwide community that prides itself on trying
    to give representation to all creeds, languages and cultures. That job is certainly not
    finished, and it may never be, but we love to give it a go.

    There are many other religious and non-religious festivals all around the world that
    may not be as fully represented as they could be by the directory. It would be great
    to have some input for these. Would like to join us to help us with that? We're always
    eager to welcome new editors to help build and maintain categories, especially in areas
    of the directory that are less developed. Just find a category that has your particular
    interest, and click the become an editor link near the top of the page.

    All that is left to do is again wish all our users a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New
    Year and to assure you that we are all looking forward to a productive editing year at
    DMOZ.

    Posted by Emily  |  Comments (42)
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    Aug 16th 2010 6:00AM
    DMOZ Planned System Outage Notification, Round 3
    Over the next three days, we will be making additional upgrades to DMOZ. As with the previous planned outage, we will be taking some parts of the directory offline so that we can complete the work. While the directory content will stay on view throughout the process, all directory submissions will be disabled from Monday, August 16 - Wednesday, August 18, 2010. The following functionality will be unavailable throughout this planned outage:
    • Site suggestions,
    • Site update requests,
    • New editor applications,
    • Editor & staff feedback, and
    • Public abuse reports.
    Neither the Resource Zone public forums nor the DMOZ editor forums will be impacted by this outage. We will provide any additional updates about this outage to the public via this blog.

    Thank you again for your patience as we work to upgrade the DMOZ directory!
    Emily

    Posted by Emily Kayser  |  Comments (57)
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    Jul 19th 2010 1:49PM
    DMOZ Planned System Outage Notification, Round 2
    Over the next three days, we will be making additional upgrades to DMOZ. As with the previous planned outage, we will be taking some parts of the directory offline so that we can complete the work. While the directory content will stay on view throughout the process, all directory submissions will be disabled from Tuesday, July 20 - Thursday, July 22, 2010. The following functionality will be unavailable throughout this planned outage:
    • Site suggestions,
    • Site update requests,
    • New editor applications,
    • Editor & staff feedback, and
    • Public abuse reports.
    Neither the Resource Zone public forums nor the DMOZ editor forums will be impacted by this outage. We will provide any additional updates about this outage to the public via this blog.

    Thank you again for your patience as we work to upgrade the DMOZ directory!
    Emily

    Posted by Emily Kayser  |  Comments (26)
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