From Phil Agre of Red Rock Eater Digest fame:
Community Web filtering seems like a good idea, and it\’s time to explore automated tools to support it. In this article I will suggest a design for a Web-based filtering tool. I cannot participate in building such a tool, but I would be happy to try out any prototypes
that others might construct. I have established a discussion list for people who might be interested in working on a tool . . .
Here, then, is my proposed design. I am sure that people who design Web-based services for a living can do better, but I also hope that any designers will listen to my rationales, which are based on years of experience running a community Web filtering service by hand.
The \”webfilter\”, as I\’ll call it, is a cross between a discussion list, a weblog, and a bookmark file. It is not just a weblog, since it includes numerous functionalities to deal with long lists of URL\’s. Nor is it just a discussion list, since the goal is to produce a
reasonably clean and orderly presentation of the URL\’s. Nor is it just a bookmark file, because of its community nature . . .
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