Week One

• Read this: So what's a word?
• Read this: Orthography as a fundamental impediment to online information retrieval
• Do this: Death in 10,000 years!

Week Two

• Read this: SGML, HTML, DHTML, XML, XHTML, JSON, etc.
• Read this: No Bad Webpages: Reader Empowerment and the Web
• Read this: The Birth of XML: A Personal Recollection
• Do this: Help Martha Stewart decorate her data!

Nobody said that information architecture was chocolate pudding.

 

Week Three

• Read this: Storing Stuff: From Databases To Data Silos
• Read this: The Programmer as Navigator
• Do this: Help SpongeBob SquarePants square his data!

 

Week Four

• Read this: Webify! Spiders already do it
• Read this: World Brain
• Read this: Exploding Universe of Web Addresses
• Read this: The Semantic Web: A New Form of Web Content that is Meaningful to Computers will Unleash a Revolution of New Possibilities
• Read this: "The Semantic Web, universalist ambition and some lessons from librarianship"
• Do this: Calculate 6 degrees of Terry!

 

Week Five

• Read this: New systems = new genres
• Read this: Winners and Losers in the Global Research Village
• Read this: Thoughts on Project Gutenberg
• Do this: Find tools for readers!

 

Week Six

• Read this: Everybody does information
• Read this: XML and the Second-Generation Web
• Read this: XML in 10 points
• Read this: Microsoft Makes XML the File Format for the Next Version of Microsoft Office
• Do this: Put polar bears inside angle brackets!

 

Sometimes information retrieval can get you in a tight spot.

 

Week Seven

• Read this: Finding lots of stuff
• Do this: Improve Terry Brooks' Search Engine!

 

Week Eight

• Read this: Does any of that stuff mean anything?
• Read this: Metadata Principles and Practicalities
• Read this: Death of a meta tag
• Read this: Metacrap
• Read this: Watch this: Webified metadata
• Do this: Help the iSchool design a web service!

 

 

Week Nine

• Read this: Google
• Read this: Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web
• Read this: The Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google
• Read this: The Attention Economy and the Net
• Read this: New Google Patent Gives Insights Into Ranking Algorithm
• Do this: Whack Google