Extremely miscellaneous lists like these could sometimes do more harm than help to the general public, or for extremely "breadth first search" oriented people like me, I think. I think of this like: don't ban power drills or knives or whatnot because those things could kill people, but teach people how to use the tools correctly, etc. Hope you get what I mean!
Perhaps you are right, perhaps only now I understand this, and I did not really paid that much attention to the disclaimer at the top of the site, EVER, until now.
I still think the main benefit of a list like this is for its creator. The way I know is because, even if no lists like this existed, I have been building my own list of "best things" of ... forever!
We tend to do things yearly because of society, culture, etc etc... there's no reason we should have "end of year resolutions" or "best of last year". I think lists like these encourage breadth first search and distract us from the fact that curation should be a continuous process, not necessarily something we do at end of year.
Again, I'm not criticizing or attacking Fogus in any way. In fact, I will probably take a deeper look at this list soon! But I will also try to produce more and consume less. And I will do my own research!
Perhaps you are right, perhaps only now I understand this, and I did not really paid that much attention to the disclaimer at the top of the site, EVER, until now.
I still think the main benefit of a list like this is for its creator. The way I know is because, even if no lists like this existed, I have been building my own list of "best things" of ... forever!
We tend to do things yearly because of society, culture, etc etc... there's no reason we should have "end of year resolutions" or "best of last year". I think lists like these encourage breadth first search and distract us from the fact that curation should be a continuous process, not necessarily something we do at end of year.
Again, I'm not criticizing or attacking Fogus in any way. In fact, I will probably take a deeper look at this list soon! But I will also try to produce more and consume less. And I will do my own research!