Mr. Drudge, who is a family therapist in Salisbury, MD, digs out interesting sites on the Web that aren't likely to pop up first on a Yahoo search. For example, Refdesk's journalism area, the first listing is 'a Journalist's Guide to the Internet,' a compendium of journalism sources created by Christopher Callahan, an associate dean at the University of Maryland's College of Journalism. In the 'Women' Sites' category, you won't find well-publicized sites such as iVillage or Oxygen listed. It's cool because it has all these links that aren't corporate,' said Jerry Hilburn, founder of Catfish Software, in San Diego, who uses Refdesk as his home page. Of course, it's hard for one man to filter 20,000 sites on his own.
Some links turn into dead ends.