There is a new web site called the Alternative Open Directory Project which looks like they want to take on DMOZ/ODP.

The site is fairly spartan at the moment but they do say “There have been attempts to create comprehensive human-reviewed directories before, but they have all failed…. The Alternative Open Directory Project will pick up the baton and charge on with a radical new system to handle the size of the Internet and this directory.”

You can read more at the Alternative Open Directory Project site.