I think something that needs to be actively maintained like DMOZ is bound to burn out. I've been thinking about how you could passively maintain an index of goo

I think something that needs to be actively maintained like DMOZ is bound to burn out. I've been thinking about how you could passively maintain an index of good resources. Imagine a service that provides you with a personal search engine in exchange for a list of your bookmarks. Those bookmarks provide the signal for what sites to index for the public search engine.