Re: Category

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> I must admit I've always been intrigued with the idea of a taxonomy 
> server/cloud where one can search for and snatch a useful path 
> from the pile and contribute one's own to the fray.  Imagine DMOZ
> without the links; contributors are free to build a decent
> hierarchy unfettered by stale links, politics, cross-linking, and
> so on.  

Yes, this is why we've been considering support for the domain itself 
and a path within it.  The idea here is to be *able* to use a domain 
like DMOZ.  There's no requirement to use it or to 'belong' to the 
DMOZ heirarchy.  We're simply leveraging their existing taxonomy.

You could just as easily mount your own taxonomy and reference it.

> I actually went so far as to write up a P2P IM-like app (can you
> say Jabber?) which would afford contributors a simple interface to
> searching, retrieving, contributing, cleanup (symlinks and the
> like) and voting on the contributions of others.  If interesting 
> to anyone, I could dig it up with pleasure.

I'd be very interested in seeing it.

-Bill Kearney