X-Message-Number: 11434
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 18:43:03 -0500
From: "Stephen W. Bridge" <>
Subject: Open Directory changes

To CryoNet
From Steve Bridge
March 20, 1999
 
CHANGE IN OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECT ADDRESSES.
 
Internet fluidity and reorganization have caused some changes at the Open
Directory Project.  ODP is an Internet index with hundreds of volunteer
editors each taking on several subject categories and looking for the best
web sites.  I told you all about this a couple of months ago and gave you
the url for my page on cryonics.  Since then two things have happened:
 
1.  The home page address for the Open Directory has changed to
http://dmoz.org
 
I don't know the entire history and I'm not quite sure where that comes
from.  But the list of web sites has expanded hugely in the past two
months, especially in the sciences area.
 
2.  The top-level editor of the Science category had a day off and decided
to totally reorganize the Science subjects -- without telling the editors
of the various pages and without stopping to think that thousands of
people out there already have hyperlinks to these subject pages on their
home pages or bookmarks.  The subjects were rearranged, the links died,
chaos ensued, and flames abounded.  My cryonics page (and any other
category the Science editor didn't quite know what to do with) disappeared
into a vague subcategory: "Around and About Science."
 
It was pretty frustrating for this long-time librarian.
 
But we've gotten it all straightened out again and the Science editor
learned that people DO notice what he does.  I think my subjects at least
will be stable for a long while.  I just keep telling myself -- "That's
the price you pay for freedom.  That's the Internet."
 
Please change your links for the Cryonics heading to:
 
http://dmoz.org/Science/Biology/Cryobiology/Cryonics
 
The advantage gained here is that I am now also editing the entire
Cryobiology heading, which didn't even exist before.  I've found several
very interesting cryobiology sites already and would welcome suggestions
for others.  There are places on each subject page to leave suggestions
for other url's.  Cryobiology is at:
http://dmoz.org/Science/Biology/Cryobiology
 
Finally, they also added another page for me to edit on cryogenic
technology at http://dmoz.org/Science/Technology/Cryotechnology
 
This will include sites for freezer and dewar manufacturers,
the Cryogenic Society of America, various bicycle and instrument LN2
dippers, and whatever else seems to fit.  I've even found a very good
discussion of cryosurgery for prostate cancer, which will start an entire
new subsection on cryosurgery once I have some more sites for it.
 
As before, suggestions for your favorite sites are welcome.  Please leave
them on the appropriate Open Directory Page.
 
If you have time on your hands and really want to be useful, I could use
some co-editors on the Cryobiology and Cryotechnology pages.  (The
Cryonics page is pretty stable right now and doesn't need much work.)
With your help, we can really make this a great resource for all of us and
everyone else  on the Web.
 
Steve Bridge

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