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Forgotten Trees of Knowledge

Authored by Michael Pate on December 12th, 2003 at 4:26 PM

I think I’m going to have to do something radical to bootstrap the distributed directories idea. Here’s what I may just do. I could turn Scripting News into a directory. Forget the weblog. We already have enough of those. My directory would be the top of the tree of knowledge, like Yahoo used to be. - Dave Winer

I think the biggest advantage weblogs have over directories is that they are more interesting to maintain. Directories become work way too easily. For instance, doing a directory of Presidential weblogs sounded potentially fruitfully a few shorts months ago. Now it is just withering on the vine. Even though fresh fruit is available. And some pruning is actually needed as well.

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Comments

You make good points.

Building a tree of knowledge is work.

You pointed to a tree from last summer. Yup it's dead. But -- the number of steps required to update it was an order of magnitude more than my current system. Now it's just a right-click to route something to a place in the hierarchy. I don't do it for all the posts, but I do it for a lot of them. You can see the results here:

http://archive.scripting.com/cats/

Authored by Dave Winer on December 12, 2003 at 10:17 PM

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