Every day there are postings asking for pointers to interesting sites, with various suggestions.
Every day there are several announcements of "Check This Out", or "Wonderful World of Web Crawling".
There are services out there, such as Harvest and Simon and others, which automatically gather home pages of various WWW sites.
There are services such as The Scout Report, which attempt to point people to interesting sites.
There is the wonderful service Gopher Jewels, which attempts to sort by categories, interesting Gopher resources.
I suggest that we want a service equivalent to Gopher Jewels for WWW. I don't know whether anyone is currently attempting to provide this. There are certainly limited attempts by some groups. But what makes Gopher Jewels especially useful are two things: 1) categorization and 2) estimate of information/interest/quality of various sites.
Does this resource already exist? Is there some group working towards this service? Can I encourage someone to take up this task? I would be interested in providing some help if I could. -- rux...@agcrr.bio.ns.ca _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. --- Samuel Johnson
Mike Ruxton (CHS) (rux...@agcrr.bio.ns.ca) wrote: : I suggest that we want a service equivalent to Gopher Jewels for WWW. : I don't know whether anyone is currently attempting to provide this. : There are certainly limited attempts by some groups. But what makes : Gopher Jewels especially useful are two things: 1) categorization and : 2) estimate of information/interest/quality of various sites.
: Does this resource already exist? Is there some group working towards : this service? Can I encourage someone to take up this task? I would : be interested in providing some help if I could.
David Filo and Jerry Yang should be given a Medal of Honor, then locked in a room and never allowed to get lives: they are already doing an excellent job of categorizing the Web with _Yahoo's Hostlist_. It can be found at: http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/
Mike Ruxton (CHS) (rux...@agcrr.bio.ns.ca) wrote: : Every day there are postings asking for pointers to interesting sites, : with various suggestions.
: Every day there are several announcements of "Check This Out", or : "Wonderful World of Web Crawling".
: There are services out there, such as Harvest and Simon and others, : which automatically gather home pages of various WWW sites.
: There are services such as The Scout Report, which attempt to point : people to interesting sites.
: There is the wonderful service Gopher Jewels, which attempts to sort : by categories, interesting Gopher resources.
: I suggest that we want a service equivalent to Gopher Jewels for WWW. : I don't know whether anyone is currently attempting to provide this. : There are certainly limited attempts by some groups. But what makes : Gopher Jewels especially useful are two things: 1) categorization and : 2) estimate of information/interest/quality of various sites.
: Does this resource already exist? Is there some group working towards : this service? Can I encourage someone to take up this task? I would : be interested in providing some help if I could.
Along these lines, I think it would be really great if there were some sort of rating scheme incorporated into each page. A simple 1-10 'goodness' rating would be very useful for sorting the grain from the chaff. (Maybe a similar scheme could be applied to usenet news postings? :-)
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du...@netcom.com (Kaitlin Sherwood) writes: >Mike Ruxton (CHS) (rux...@agcrr.bio.ns.ca) wrote: >: I suggest that we want a service equivalent to Gopher Jewels for WWW. >: I don't know whether anyone is currently attempting to provide this. >: There are certainly limited attempts by some groups. But what makes >: Gopher Jewels especially useful are two things: 1) categorization and >: 2) estimate of information/interest/quality of various sites. >: Does this resource already exist? Is there some group working towards >: this service? Can I encourage someone to take up this task? I would >: be interested in providing some help if I could. >David Filo and Jerry Yang should be given a Medal of Honor, then >locked in a room and never allowed to get lives: they are already >doing an excellent job of categorizing the Web with _Yahoo's Hostlist_. >It can be found at: > http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/
Close, hope they don't want a cigar. How can I complain, they've done a good job? Well, the descriptive stuff could be improved, the layout could be improved, the indexing could be improved.
But I admit they have categorized, and they have {way cool} sites, and my complaints aren't about what they have done, but what might be done, but hasn't (YET!!!)
-- rux...@agcrr.bio.ns.ca _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. --- Samuel Johnson
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>Every day there are postings asking for pointers to interesting sites, >with various suggestions. >I suggest that we want a service equivalent to Gopher Jewels for WWW. >I don't know whether anyone is currently attempting to provide this.
Well, we here at Netsurfer Digest are trying to kind of move in that direction. We do have reviews of interesting sites every week, in fact we explicitly try to weed out the boring announcements and bring the readers stuff we, as netsurfers ourselves, find cool. We've even toyed with the idea of ratings, but that kind of stuff is too subjective. We can certainly award points for technical merit, but taste is a very personal matter.
In any event try subscribing, and see if you like the material. You'll probably stumble among more interesting sites then if you tried to keep up with the announcement flood (that's our job). Note that we are not and don't intend to be in competition with sites like Yahoo.
