2013-05-29

list of online directories

4.18: news.adds/lib/directories:
. web directories for subject-specific searches:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_directories
classic dmoz (but no longer mozilla
http://www.dmoz.org/
-- owned by AOL Time Warner)
(become an editor)
http://www.dmoz.org/docs/en/help/become.html
classic yahoo
http://dir.yahoo.com/
joeant (subject then rank sorted)
http://www.joeant.com/
(apply to be accepted as an editor)
the best of blogs
http://blogs.botw.org/
the best of web (dinky)
http://botw.org/

skipping versioning for small edits

4.26: adde/versioning/skipping versioning for small edits:
. while inputting a string,
when the normal rules of versioning are in play,
stopping to do a correction should
cause the string input to be terminated,
then the new command is a string replace .

. one way around that is [word modify mode]
that can suspend the versioning system
until you are finished editing a particular word;
and, it reduces the damage of the modification
to just a particular word,
so that the versioning system is less needed . 5.13:
. it doesn't consider the word saved by versioning
until you are actually getting into the next word .

versiwiki

4.12: adds/versiwiki:
. in wikipedia we often see "citation needed";
this reminded me of a need for versioning;
the default version is completely referenced:
it hides everything that needs a citation,
or that has a citation that doesn't apply .
. if you want to see flagged content
(original work, contested material)
then you click the view-all button .
. we can also extend that idea
to have buttons for many versions:
show original content, or show controversial .
. when the controversial view is shown
it also shows the tags people have added:
pornographic, hate speech, ethnocentric, etc .

free online books

4.20: adds/lib/free books list
5.29: summary:
. I found a list of free academic books online,
and this is my reading list todo . :)