Some of you may be familiar with DMOZ, the open directory project that replaced Netscape’s old directory and attempts to be the open community-maintained alternative to the increasingly creaky Yahoo! directory. I just stumbled across MusicMoz, which attempts to be a definitive directory for music.
Why is this cool? Well, think how important IMDB is—it’s pretty much the de facto authoritative source for information about movies and TV shows on the Internet. If you want the equivalent for music, where do you go? What site can allow you to trace a musician’s progress from band to band, combine a directory with a discography and have a clean and searchable interface?
Well, nowhere, really. In my iTunes scripts, I link to Google instead. But MusicMoz might be a cool alternative. And they’re looking for category editors…
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