Yahoo is closing its directory, the thing that started Yahoo in the first place. That shouldn’t be surprising to anyone; Yahoo had been letting the directory fall apart for years. The core of the company died an extended death due to neglect. The stupid thing about it is that with Google’s frequent algorithm changes, spammers, and the sheer ridiculous size of the ‘net, there is a place for a well-maintained searchable subject index. In fact, there’s investment money going into link directories, as I mentioned just a few days ago. But link directories aren’t sexy, so in the bin it goes…

Here’s something you don’t read about every day – a digitized collection of yacht club yearbooks. “The Avalon Library is pleased to announce the Avalon Digital Archive and its first collection: 1953 to 2007 Avalon Club Yacht Club yearbooks, digitized with cooperation from the Avalon History Center and the Avalon Yacht Club.”

Limerick (Ireland) has a new online archive of photographs. “A NEW WEBSITE featuring 25,000 photographs of life in Limerick during the 1970s has been launched as part of the Limerick City of Culture. ‘From Limerick with Love’ contains images from the archives of The Limerick Leader newspaper, which celebrates its 125th anniversary this year.”

I love this: British Columbia has a registry of big trees.

The Guggenheim free online modern art book collection is up to 109 volumes. “Published between 1937 and 1999, the art books/catalogues offer an intellectual and visual introduction to the work of Alexander Calder, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, Gustav Klimt & Egon Schiele, Fernand Léger, and Kandinsky.” And more, as they say.

Amazon has expanded its Twitter integration. “Today, the company is expanding on its Twitter functionality with the introduction of a new hashtag, #AmazonWishList, which – as you can guess – will post a tweeted product to your Amazon Wish List.”

This hoax keeps coming up over and over again. Hopefully you know better, but in case you don’t – or you know someone who doesn’t – please do not try to charge your iPhone in the microwave. Good morning, Internet…

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