You know what would have some value is to index these semantically. Not a trivial project, but one that would differentiate a list from, say other lists.
Keyword search and index wont differentiate hand saw from saw hand. Having that differentiation would target good info very quickly.
Look up irregardless in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Irregardless is a word commonly used in place of regardless or irrespective, which has caused controversy since the early twentieth century, though the word appeared in print as early as 1795. [1] Most dictionaries list it as "nonstandard" or "incorrect".
IMO the use of it makes one appear uneducated. The reason is I know someone that is illiterate that uses the word every chance he gets to try and make himself "seem" intelligent.
There are many such directory sites that late adopters still use.
Google had a directory until last year - guess they found a better business model Yahoo still maintains a web directory: http://dir.yahoo.com/
These days most such sites are nothing more than links and advertising that park in a squatted domain. For example, This link is from a version of the innoide packager help: http://www.innoide.org/ That snarky blond and most of the links are not very helpful.
IMHO, directory type presentations of content still can have some value, but really that's in the selection criteria. "best of" really means a lot of things! What are the criteria and how would they add enough value for me to consider using the directory over say a search or two?
I thought the http://www.iloveparks.com/ website that Bruce pointed out was nicely done. But it's more than just a list: it includes news updates, photos, and videos. Maintaining it has to require considerable effort. But maintaining just a simple list requires effort, too. I can't count the number of times I've encountered online lists, some only a year or two old and a good percentage of whose links were already 404'd or leading to link farms or web registrars because the registration had expired.
Bruce, your project sounds very ambitious, yet once it's "done," you've only just begun the maintenance part. Building the site is "in for a penny." Maintaining it is "in for a pound."
Could that be the real reason why Klingons began fighting us? The Bing translation totally buggered our message of "Let's be friends" and instead transmitted this:
Which, to a Klingon, is a declaration of total war.
I wonder how long it will be before the word "bing" enters our daily vocabulary. As in: "The doomed motorcyclist drove straight into the back of the school bus and his head got binged clean off at the shoulders."
"Yes, the only survivor of the telescoping train wreck was binged up pretty bad."
"Give me liberty, or give me bing."
"We're gonna bing you, Sheriff.... And we're gonna bing you sloooow."
Thanks for the links Tommy. I also have a bunch of electronic links stashed away, which I intend to add. I can only imagine what everyone envisions, but I am certain that the layout will be far from what they expect. I won't let you down, I am sure you will like the new website.
@Phil
I am glad you liked the park site, I thought it was pretty cool, since I like parks. As you said, it is a very ambitious project, and I had forgotten all the work involved, just to get it up and running, not to mention the addition of the store. In addition to the day to day maintenance of the lists, there is also quite a bit of work involved in driving the traffic to the new website. However I am hoping that it will be worth all the effort that I am putting forth.
idbruce, since you mentioned a store. I image you're selling something. The last thing you want are unrelated product links in your store. Search engines will have a hard time indexing the site as related to the product. There's also a good chance to hurt ranking of the external linked sites.
As a courtesy, consider contacting the site owners and make sure they approve.
I couldn't find a single general-interest web site in my collection of bookmarks - nothing whatsoever to share. A random sample: tree-climbing knots, experimental rocket motor igniters, NRCS snow surveys, Python programming reference, HDL labs from Cornell University.
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Keyword search and index wont differentiate hand saw from saw hand. Having that differentiation would target good info very quickly.
FWIW
Google had a directory until last year - guess they found a better business model
These days most such sites are nothing more than links and advertising that park in a squatted domain. For example, This link is from a version of the innoide packager help: http://www.innoide.org/ That snarky blond and most of the links are not very helpful.
IMHO, directory type presentations of content still can have some value, but really that's in the selection criteria. "best of" really means a lot of things! What are the criteria and how would they add enough value for me to consider using the directory over say a search or two?
http://www.bing.com/translator
Bruce, your project sounds very ambitious, yet once it's "done," you've only just begun the maintenance part. Building the site is "in for a penny." Maintaining it is "in for a pound."
-Phil
Could that be the real reason why Klingons began fighting us? The Bing translation totally buggered our message of "Let's be friends" and instead transmitted this:
Which, to a Klingon, is a declaration of total war.
I wonder how long it will be before the word "bing" enters our daily vocabulary. As in: "The doomed motorcyclist drove straight into the back of the school bus and his head got binged clean off at the shoulders."
"Yes, the only survivor of the telescoping train wreck was binged up pretty bad."
"Give me liberty, or give me bing."
"We're gonna bing you, Sheriff.... And we're gonna bing you sloooow."
I leave this link for Bruce, In hopes that when the smoke from the klingon/earth train wreck clears, this link will be found laying about in the ash and rubble of this thread...
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/
and this link too...
http://openbookproject.net//electricCircuits/DC/index.html
-Tommy
As a courtesy, consider contacting the site owners and make sure they approve.