Guide for the Busy Student



It's really very simple. Just follow this list.


  1. Read "So what's a word?"
  2. Read "Orthography as a Fundamental Impediment to Online Information Retrieval"
  3. Write a poem before October 12
  4. Read "Gerard Salton and Words"
  5. Read "Web Search: How the Web has changed information retrieval"
  6. Read "SGML, HTML, DHTML, XML, XHTML, etc."
  7. Read "No bad web pages: Reader empowerment and the Web"
  8. Read "The Birth of XML"
  9. Help Martha Decorate Her Data before October 19
  10. Read "Information Systems Store Stuff: From Databases to Data Silos"
  11. Read "The Programmer as Navigator"
  12. Read "The Relational Model in Information Retrieval"
  13. Systematize SpongeBob's Information before October 26
  14. Read "Webify! Spiders already do it!"
  15. Read "World Brain"
  16. Read "Exploding Universe of Web Addresses"
  17. Read "The Semantic Web: A new form of wweb content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities"
  18. Read "The Semantic Web, universalist ambition and some lessons from librarianship"
  19. Find out who's connected to Terry Brooks before November 2
  20. First draft due on November 2
  21. Read "Information Systems Create New Literary Genres"
  22. Read "Winners and Losers in the Global Research Village"
  23. Read "Thoughts on Project Gutenberg"
  24. Analyze Tools for Readers before November 9
  25. Read "Distributed Information Systems: XML and Content Management"
  26. Read "XML and the Second-Generation Web"
  27. Read "XML in 10 Points"
  28. Read "Microsoft Makes XML the File Format for the Next Version of Microsoft Office"
  29. Design XML before November 16
  30. Read "Search: Finding Lots of Stuff"
  31. Improve diplomacy between the USA and France before November 23
  32. Read "Semantics: Does Any of That Stuff Mean Anything?"
  33. Read "Metadata Principles and Practicalities"
  34. Read "Death of a Meta Tag"
  35. Read "Metacrap"
  36. Help Amazon Design a Web Service before November 30
  37. Read "Eugene Garfield and Citation Indexing"
  38. Read "Google"
  39. Read "Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web"
  40. Read "The nature of meaning in the age of Google"
  41. Read "The attention economy and the Net"
  42. Read "New Google patent gives insights into ranking algorithm"
  43. Whack Google before December 7
  44. Deliver your final draft on December 9, 2005

No matter how big the job, always start with a list!

Perhaps a list is structured information?
Perhaps a list is an information system?
Maybe it's metadata?
How about retrieving list items?
Whoa! Let's not go there...