A FIELD GUIDE TO FINDING YOUR WAY ONLINE
New long reads on organising, describing and checking web resources. A separate historical catalogue preserves the original directory’s categories and recorded listing metadata.
THE FIELD GUIDE
Practical long reads for people who organise web resources. Useful distinctions, worked examples and visible primary references.
Define what inclusion means, separate recorded claims from checked facts and make a collection useful without promising more than its process establishes.
Read the field guide ↗ 1,230 wordsDistinguish subject, audience, format and geography, then use hierarchy and cross-links to create more than one sensible route to a resource.
Read the field guide ↗ 1,208 wordsSeparate visible wording, recorded addresses, resolved targets and resource identity before cleaning up a directory's links.
Read the field guide ↗ 1,190 wordsTreat response codes, redirects and content drift as separate signals, then repair a reference without erasing its history.
Read the field guide ↗ 1,212 wordsUse headings, meaningful links, keyboard focus and reflow to make a long resource collection understandable through more than one way of reading.
Read the field guide ↗ 1,213 wordsReplace promotional filler with scope, format, audience and limitations — the details that make a directory entry useful before the click.
Read the field guide ↗ 1,227 wordsUnderstand what robots rules, indexing controls and a directory's editorial inclusion do — without treating any of them as a quality or access certificate.
Read the field guide ↗ 1,227 wordsBuild a small provenance record that explains where information came from, what changed and what each date actually identifies.
Read the field guide ↗ 1,224 wordsTHE ORIGINAL DIRECTORY / 2010–2011
Category labels, saved homepage versions and recorded listing metadata. Preserved with capture dates, newly written annotations and no suggestion that the old destinations are verified today.
Explore the historical catalogue →NEW GUIDES PUBLISHED 17 OCTOBER 2026. ARCHIVE CAPTURE DATES ARE SHOWN SEPARATELY.
NO LIVE DIRECTORY, PAID LISTING OR CURRENT VERIFICATION SERVICE IS OPERATED HERE.