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by davidjnelson • 7 years ago

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For those interested in such curated links/articles, I run DiscoverDev - https://www.discoverdev.io/

I curate and tag about 8-10 interesting and high quality developer related links every weekday. Been doing so for over a year and a half now, I believe I've curated over 2500+ links :)

iamrobschiavone• 7 years ago

I subscribed a long time ago and never looked back! Thank you for the effort spent curating the newsletter

ahstilde• 7 years ago

Are you still doing the weekly?

sytelus• 7 years ago

You should consider putting this in github. Personal websites are always at risk of getting lost eventually.

walterbell• 7 years ago

As web search engines continue to decline (why?), we are reinventing Yahoo/DMOZ curated indexes. Do any search engines use curated lists as a signal of quality?

TeMPOraL• 7 years ago

Probably not - if they did, you wouldn't be able to find a curated list that isn't thoroughly gamed by marketing people.

benj1112• 7 years ago

"why?"

Algorithmic search has it's limitations, it can only really give you what you search for, and for something niche, the signal could be drowned out by the mainstream noise.

I suppose HN could be replaced with a google search for "interesting tech(ish) related things" I don't really think that would or could work though.

I'll also check the blog roll of interesting sites I find, because I don't think they'd necessarily show up in a search.

I don't think web search is in decline though, or if it is, its down to the walled gardens cutting off large parts of the web.

misterman0• 7 years ago

> Algorithmic search has it's limitations

Search engines were never just about algorithmic search. They were search+recommend (what you'd call "AI" these days), but the most successfull ones always turned recommend into advertising.

whouweling• 7 years ago

Could also be the difference between searching with a clear goal in mind and discovering of new ideas & interests?

chongli• 7 years ago

"why?"

Advertising and SEO happened. There is simply too much garbage out there and even Google has run out of ideas for how to filter it out. So they've resorted to curating by favouring the largest commercial sites. Essentially, they've turned the internet into cable TV (isn't that what all the big players wanted anyway?).

petercooper• 7 years ago

This isn't really a reinvention. It looks like a tumblelog, which has existed for over 10 years.

The broader trend towards curated lists does exist, true, but in the bigger picture it's no different to how any news service has "curated" the news over the years. The main difference is linking to third party sources (something which arguably Drudge Report invented online).

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