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I've long felt that dmoz could use some improvements similar to those you've suggested - but you've communicated them far better than I could, and have ideas beyond what we've thought of so far. Your article inspired me, though, and I and a couple friends are giving it a try to see if we can make a better Web-2.0-ish platform for managing DMOZ-like directories. One other burdensome thing about DMOZ is the license. If you were to add an 11th Idea, I'd say they should re-license their stuff under an easier license to use (say, Creative Commons, or GFDL, or whatever Wikipedia uses). Otherwise we might try starting from a clean slate of data and launching a separate open directory under a more standard license.

It's not done yet - it's just the first quickie beta we threw up there - but more of the ideas you mentioned are coming soon.