Overwhelmed

I'm still struggling a bit to complete the required readings and assignments (including posting here) whilst maintaining other responsibilities, but I'm plugging along. Since the last post, I've finished Tim Berners-Lee's lecture on the semantic web and spent a while pouring over the Wikipedia entry on the concept. I couldn't possibly say that I fully comprehend all of the particulars, but I believe I have a rough understanding of the philosophical framework and functional possibilities and I think it's very cool. I can only imagine the enormous analytical potential inherent in the immense quantity of information already available online if properly incorporated into the semantic web's URI-RDF system. I'd love to contribute, but I fear I've neither the brainpower or time to do so anytime in the near future. For now, I'll patiently look forward to benefiting from the dedicated work of the many many people, much more capable than myself, that are developing "Web 3.0".

Blog Inaugural

Welcome to my mind-blowingly dynamic and epically enthralling mandatorily created blog! Stick around and maybe, just maybe, I'll post something of interest before the term has come to a close (full disclosure: I probably won't).

What am I up to, you ask? Oh, you didn't ask? Well, I'll tell you anyway: I've just now finished The Structure of Scientific Revolutions for LIS2000 after a grueling two day read-a-thon. After finding my way out from that dense thicket of language, I imagine that the bulk of our other readings will be like the contents of the back of a cereal box in comparison. Now to finish virtually every other reading assignment from this week and last that I've neglected in order to finish 'Structure'. In all honesty, I'm extremely frustrated to feel as though I'm playing catch-up from the start, but I also have faith that I'll be able to strike a more workable balance soon.