[WEB4LIB] Re: Report Uncovers Epidemic of Children Viewi

[Jerry Kuntz]

A huge open source crawling index maintained by librarians would be great.
As for indexed directories, there's already:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/  Librarian's Index to the
Internet
&
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/  KidsClick!
both of which are maintained by volunteer corps of librarians. [at one point
in the past few days, these two sites combined were generating close to
10,000 hits per hour!]
Jerry Kuntz
Ramapo Catskill Library System
(KidsClick! site manager)
jkuntz at rcls.org

-----Original Message-----
From: CMUNSON <CMUNSON at aaas.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 10:10 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Report Uncovers Epidemic of Children Viewi


>     Nick wrote:
>>I would still like to see librarians unplug their Internet connections to
>dramatize the need for investment in information organization on the
>Internet.  It is somewhat sad that the most comprehensive indexes are being
>created by for-profit companies than by libraries.
>
>    Actually, some of us have recently come together to start work on an
open
>source alternative to Yahoo! and Alta Vista. This collaborative effort will
>involve hundreds of programmers, librarians and volunteers. We are worried
that
>the egalitarian nature of the Net will be trampled and destroyed by the mad
rush
>of the Yahoo!s of the world to maximize their profits. We're also motivated
by
>the desire to create a directory that has some value added to it by humans.
>
>It's time for librarians to quit bemoaning how bad commerical search
engines are
>and to start doing something it.
>
>If you are interested in getting involved, email me for more information.
>
>Chuck0
>FreeSearch development team
>