Shaney Crawford describes the history and operation of the project, considers its strong and weak points and gives statistics. Headlines also in Japanese and examples from World: Japanese.

The Open Directory Project is testing a new system to allow anyone to report suspected abuse by editors.

CNET News reports that directories are being displaced by algorithmic search tools and commercial services. The analysis focuses on Yahoo!, the ODP and Looksmart.

In Computer Bits magazine, Frank Vaughan (who is a volunteer ODP editor in addition to being a curmudgeon) writes about the commercialization of search engines and encourages people to "give back" to the internet by volunteering to help dmoz.