As you guys probably know, a bunch of directories were recently penalized, largely for posting here about selling PageRank and such. I thought about it for a while and wrote a serious article which has been published by the Internet Search Engine database. If you'd care to share your thoughts on the article, I'd appreciate the feedback. Constructive criticism would be great! The New Directory (On a related note, something else I authored at SEOmoz might be of interest too: How to Protect Your Site from Google if You Sell Text Links
ya kind of serious. i think that directories such as article and web directories should change to web2.0 kind of site. if we spend time at directories it seems like we are going back to the stone age.