How much is enough to start out with and how much further seeding just adds noise?
Brad’s directory is coming together!
Boy oh boy—this is great! So you have done a great job writing descriptions,
trimming the list down to your essential set and coming up with a good category
structure and all that. (And I mean: who am I to tell you this—you’re the
directorymeister around here.)
I wish that /links was the home page. I like
being right in the middle of things and that page has tons of useful
information. However, I can see why you’d want to take the Google approach.
I also wonder about starring things. I like that it’s an invitation to
participate. (As are ‘commenting’ and ‘reporting’.) I’ve left this kind of stuff
out of my directory, in part because I’d rather that they create their own
directories if they disagree. I think ‘reporting’ is a really cool idea—I can
see the value there, possibly. With starring: how valuable has this kind of
feature been to you in the past?
I really like that you’ve highlighted categories like ‘Fiction’ and ‘City
Planning’—in a massive directory, these would be deeply buried, but they are
key to your experience on the Web, so they are near the top. This is a really
cool advantage to a smaller directory: finding niches that aren’t ever
nearby—except here.
I think, at this point, you will learn what works and what doesn’t. I’m going to
browse around and announce this on my site soon once I have a chance to take it
in completely. Man—this is so fun!
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Brad’s directory is coming together!
Boy oh boy—this is great! So you have done a great job writing descriptions, trimming the list down to your essential set and coming up with a good category structure and all that. (And I mean: who am I to tell you this—you’re the directorymeister around here.)
I wish that /links was the home page. I like being right in the middle of things and that page has tons of useful information. However, I can see why you’d want to take the Google approach.
I also wonder about starring things. I like that it’s an invitation to participate. (As are ‘commenting’ and ‘reporting’.) I’ve left this kind of stuff out of my directory, in part because I’d rather that they create their own directories if they disagree. I think ‘reporting’ is a really cool idea—I can see the value there, possibly. With starring: how valuable has this kind of feature been to you in the past?
I really like that you’ve highlighted categories like ‘Fiction’ and ‘City Planning’—in a massive directory, these would be deeply buried, but they are key to your experience on the Web, so they are near the top. This is a really cool advantage to a smaller directory: finding niches that aren’t ever nearby—except here.
I think, at this point, you will learn what works and what doesn’t. I’m going to browse around and announce this on my site soon once I have a chance to take it in completely. Man—this is so fun!