Well finally after knowing that changes were coming eventually, there have finally been some public appearances of some of these changes. It first appeared when AOL activated the Captcha system a couple of weeks ago. It is continued with the launching of the Official DMOZ Blog yesterday.
Quoting Bob Keating’s (DMOZ Editor-in-Chief) first post:
“We thought now was the right time to open the door and start a conversation with the Web community about what’s happening with the largest human-edited directory.
We intend to use this blog to:
- Provide authentic messages about DMOZ and the efforts of our volunteer community.
- Highlight enhancements, both current and future.
- Allow editors to showcase their categories and describe, in their own words, why DMOZ is so important.
- Recruit new editors. If you have access to the Web and are passionate about a category, find out how to apply.”
Hopefully this new Blog will provide a good channel of factual information on the directory and the positive changes being made. It is nice to finally be able to talk about the changes that editors have seen coming for many months now. There is still plenty of work that needs to be done, but now there is an official channel available to disseminate information to the public straight from the source.
Editors with blogs like mine have been trying to do what we can in order to pass along useful information, but since much of this information needs to be made official before we can freely touch on it, we are very limited on what we can safely mention. Having an official blog allows for the public acknowledgment of this information, which in turn makes it easier for the rest of us to help pass along the most important bits.
Hopefully this is a sign of greater things to come. The editors have already been monitoring the positive changes, now through this blog the public can hopefully be made aware of some of the most important changes.
