The Spark – Yahoo!
From 2005 – 2010 I worked on The Spark as a writer, editor and manager. It was a daily feature on the front page of the Yahoo! Directory (and sometimes featured on the front page of yahoo.com) that highlighted new, niche and unusual online content, hand-picked by the team of “surfers” – a.k.a. the curators and taxonomists who built the directory and sorted all the websites into browseable categories before search got good enough to find anything you were looking for. (Yes, I’m that old.) Sadly the Yahoo! Directory has been retired, and along with it The Spark. Since many of the links in posts no longer work, I’ve posted screenshots instead to show what the posts looked like at the time. You’ll have to trust me that some of the linked content was absolutely hilarious in context :-)
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michelle heimburger 