The new winner is Directory Journal by phpLD Forum member Haxan. From design, to modifications, to content, to integration with a blog, Directory Journal has done an excellent job.

Some Stats About Dirjournal:
11,000 Categories
13,000+ Listings
More notably, they have received over 80,000 submissions as of June of 2011, but only a little over 13,000 are included in their database because they have a strong editorial policy.

The site is so well managed and promoted, and is very popular. A lot of efforts are being put in to add quality content to make it a DIFFERENT directory and a proper source