Things like this increasingly make me think we need to go back to having web directories, like Yahoo and dmoz. There is so much great content out there that having good curated lists is very high value.
With the awesome lists, digital gardens, Pinboard and personal websites coming back I wouldn't be surprised if 'the human curated web' is the next big thing
In the few years before the WWW, I had a hobby at work of finding public FTP sites and downloading local copies of what was on the sites. A simple grep search over these files often surfaced useful code and data. I shared this with just my local work group at work.
I agree that the ‘awesome list’ repos on GitHub are very useful.
Things like this increasingly make me think we need to go back to having web directories, like Yahoo and dmoz. There is so much great content out there that having good curated lists is very high value.