Hi Everyone! Today we're happy to bring you the first in an occasional series of posts which will highlight some DMOZ categories on popular, noteworthy and breaking news topics. Enjoy! Emily - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The 2011 Christchurch Earthquake and the 2011 Cricket World Cup An aftershock of the 2010 earthquake,

International Growth & Expansion Expansion of World/Ukrainian During 2010, the number of listed sites in the World/Ukrainian branch increased by approximately 50% and Editor School was offered for the first time in this branch. Additionally, two editors attained high-level permissions in this area: one was granted access to the top level and the other received CatMod permissions.

Hi Everyone! The editor community has collaborated to prepare the following post to wish you Happy Holidays. We hope you enjoy and we look forward to seeing you in 2011! Emily - - - - - - - - - Happy Holidays to all our users from the staff and editors at DMOZ. This time of year is often the time for reflection of the year gone by. The highs and the lows, the joys and the pain of events that have passed through our lives.

Over the next three days, we will be making additional upgrades to DMOZ. As with the previous planned outage, we will be taking some parts of the directory offline so that we can complete the work. While the directory content will stay on view throughout the process, all directory submissions will be disabled from Monday, August 16 - Wednesday, August 18, 2010 . The following functionality will be unavailable throughout this planned outage: Site suggestions,