OrbisViator™ Directory of Websites

Website Categories:

ARTS
Arts, Dance, Drama, Journalism, Literature, Music, Poetry, and Theater

BOSTON
Boston and New England

COMPUTERS
Computers, Cybersecurity, Gadgets, Hardware, Internet, Networks, Phones, Quantum Computing + Algorithms, and Software

DATABASE/AI
Database Technologies, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Neural Networks

EMPLOY
Employment, Jobs, Labor, Management, and Unions

ENTERTAINMENT
Entertainment, Fashion, Games, Gossip, People, Sex, Social Media, and Television

HISTORY
History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Culture, Geography, Humanities, and Sociology 

KIDS
Kids, Education, Families, Parenting, Pediatrics, and Pregnancy 

MONEY
Money, Business, Cars, Economics, Finance, and Real Estate

PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion, and Theology

POLITICS
Politics, Activism, Government, Law, Legal Issues, and Military  

REFERENCE
Reference, Dictionaries, Encyclopedia, Etymology, Genealogy, Maps, Public Records, and Research

SCIENCE
Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience, Paleontology, Psychology, and Technology

SPORTS
Sports, Health, Nutrition, and Outdoors

TRAVEL
Travel, Hotels, Lodging, Transportation, Travel Insurance, and Travel Medicine

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This directory of websites is curated by human editors and distinguishes itself from search engines by organizing websites into categories determined by a human curator, and not by calculations done with probability and statistics like AI might. The websites are individually reviewed by a person.

The directory approach also allows one to browse links within a category out of curiosity, or to get a sense of what’s available in a given category. Contemporary search engines use an approach that acts as a sort of gatekeeper. The directory approach used here provides an overview of available sites that search engines don’t provide. The OrbisViator directory gives one an opportunity to explore the Web’s diversity and depth, and showcases sites that might otherwise be hard to discover.

Selection of external content is frequently intended to compensate for deficiencies in mainstream media coverage. The selection of articles or other content is meant to offset coverage of events and issues that are underreported, misreported, or incompletely reported by the mass media or anywhere. While other sites may act as gatekeepers to content, OrbisViator allows the user to choose.

OrbisViator encourages browsing the website links in this directory as one would browse the books on a library shelf or at a brick and mortar bookstore. One should embrace “epistemological modesty.” This approach is augmented by the AI search functionality provided at the top of every page. One is encouraged to use whatever approach works best for one’s preferences.

Search functionality is provided by Algolia and Google. The Algolia search functionality provided at the top of every page and on the AI Search page is powered by “autocomplete” technology that returns results as one types in real time.

Because this site has been curated carefully, the search functionality on this site ideally provides results with higher precision than some of the other options available on the Internet

Today’s search technology is constantly evolving so one should view the search results as a very good guess but not necessarily the final, correct answer to a query.

This directory should be not be considered a complete or exhaustive list of available websites for a given category. There are many sites that could appear in a category and the directory could perhaps be viewed as a starting point for further browsing. Viewing the links in a given category is like looking at the books available on a library shelf. No library has all of the books in the world. One should not be offended by the omission of any particular site for a given category.

This directory has a New England, American perspective and one should view the Internet as a global, multicultural, multilingual, and highly diverse thing.

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An Old Woman ('The Ugly Duchess'). Quinten Massys. About 1513. National Gallery UK. Creative Commons, non-commercial use. Bequeathed by Miss Jenny Louisa Roberta Blaker, 1947 NG5769 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/NG5769 — An Old Woman (‘The Ugly Duchess’). Quinten Massys. About 1513. National Gallery UK. Creative Commons, non-commercial use. Bequeathed by Miss Jenny Louisa Roberta Blaker, 1947. NG5769
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/NG5769

“Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. It is actively moving in all the currents of society itself.” – John Dewey. “The School and Social Progress.” 1907

“Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life.” Sidney Sheldon

“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” Peter Sondergaard (1965 – ), senior vice president and global head of Research at Gartner, Inc. Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in October, 2011, Orlando, Florida

“I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.” Laura Bush, First Lady of United States of America 2001-2009, and First Lady of Texas 1995-2000

“Many highly schooled people are uneducated, and many highly “educated” people are unschooled.” Milton Friedman

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” Walt Disney. 2007