September 20, 2005:

• Robozilla exposed

  Despite the claims that ODP is a human edited directory, that’s not quite true. Today we expose a secret employee.
  Robozilla is a webcrawler that periodically visits all the websites pointed to by the Open Directory Project. When a page has either moved or is not found, Robozilla notes this fact in the internal logs. […]

September 19, 2005:

• Online Poker

  First this really is not about online poker, but about all the online poker spam bots that are attacking this site (and many. many other blogs) and trying to post comment spam. I’m following the advice in Bloggers of the World : Unite ! which suggests getting as many links as possible pointing to a […]

September 12, 2005:

• Site Submission Services

  The proper way to get a site into the ODP heap, with the hopes to get it reviewed and listed is to manually choose the correct category and suggest the site using the suggest URL link. It is only by manual submission that a category can be correctly selected, it is only by manually writing […]

September 11, 2005:

• Why does anyone become an editor?

  People sometimes wonder why anyone becomes an editor - why would anyone waste their life reviewing and listing websites and not get paid for it. The general assumption is that most people become editors to get their sites listed but that seems to be incorrect. I don’t know of any reliable measure of the […]

July 26, 2005:

• Words Fail Me

  Although the Resource Zone is a tamer place now that status checks have been eliminated - it sometimes is a source of literary gems. Here is a thread which certainly starts off with a somewhat vitriolic question (which appears to have been since edited and toned down) from a site owner somewhat aggrieved by the […]

July 20, 2005:

• The Google Directory

  There is a lot of confusion about DMOZ, Google and the Google directory.
  First, many assume you have to be in DMOZ, before you can get in Google. That is totally wrong, it’s very easy to get in Google, and it’s not required to be in DMOZ/ODP for that to happen. However, you cannot be in […]

July 14, 2005:

• London, July 7, 2005

  Sometimes the creation of a new ODP category is not a happy event, but required by the realities of the day.
  Society: Issues: Terrorism: Incidents: London, July 7, 2005
  Want to make a statement - then link to this website : We’re not afraid
  — also send them a picture.

June 29, 2005:

• Sites Using ODP Data

  Sometimes I get asked - why is my site not listed in such and such directory - one that is based on ODP data. Unfortunately there are thousands of directories around - and they vary greatly in both quality and how often the data is updated. Some of these directories are years out […]

June 21, 2005:

• Where is the Real Amway?

  A question often asked is - when is the ODP more relevant than a search engine?
  A reasonable question - considering that ODP claims to have less than five million sites listed, whereas Google has many times more than that number. However, in many cases, the results returned from ODP are biased, and those sites that […]

June 8, 2005:

• Why Not Nofollow

  The question about ODP using the Nofollow tag has been raised recently in various places.
  For example in this SEO forum thread: Should DMOZ switch to nofollow
  What is nofollow? In normal circumstances a link from one site to another is used by search engines, such as Google, MSN and Yahoo as a “vote” for […]

May 25, 2005:

• He Just Does Not Understand

  Open Directory Project Bans Objection to New Policy
  This is a response in Resource-Zone - now what is the problem here? (Quoted below since like any moderated forum - off topic post get deleted)
  I am going to submit a press release to all the major news sources, regarding the events that have taken place here […]