Our PLans

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books (or websites) have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries." — Samuel Johnson (Boswell's Life of Johnson)
OUR PLANS TO CREATE A 3-CLICK ALPHABETICAL INTERNET INDEX OF MORE THAN ONE MILLION ARTICLES. Updated 7/01/08. This alphabeticalist.com (tm) section of this website is basically a prototype for such a 3-click system. We have good reason to believe this system will be a whole lot more efficient than searching through Google-like, fill-in-the-search-box windows. We also believe the system will be more authoritative and easier to use than Wikipedia which does not allow original work not previously published in encyclopedic language. The following is a direct quote from wikipedia. "Wikipedia does not publish original research or original thought. This includes unpublished facts, arguments, speculation, and ideas; and any unpublished analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position. This means that Wikipedia is not the place to publish your own opinions or experiences. Citing sources and avoiding original research are inextricably linked: to demonstrate that you are not presenting original research, you must cite reliable sources that provide information directly related to the topic of the article, and that directly support the information as it is presented." Our system will use an alphabetical list of about 15,000 topics -- that is approximately four times the number of topics (excluding proper nouns) covered by the NY Times. Those topics can be thought of as a controlled vocabulary. The viewer will first see 26 alphabetical letters -- each letter will lead (in one click) to 1,000 or so topics -- or about 15,000 in total. When the list is mature -- each topic will lead, by a second click, to a separate page of about 65 abstracts of articles, presentations or pages about the topic -- that will be about one million abstracts. Each abstract will lead, by a third click, to a single complete article about the related subject (1,000,000 articles). Each click will be the result of a single rational choice. It will be practically impossible to get lost. These articles are currently in place at various websites -- but they are not indexed efficiently. Q: HOW WILL WE DECIDE ON THE TOPICS TO LIST? A: WE WILL MINE THE EXISTING INTERNET. This will all be done on this pro-bono site. We will first list all of the existing (1) search-engine sites, (2) sites that have A-Z lists on any topic, (3) directory oriented sites and (4) sites that specialize on various topics. We will mine all the sites on those lists and make an A-Z list of all the main topics on those sites. For each topic, we will then list all the sites we can find that have “good” (“good” will be determined by the indexer) information on that topic. We have started by selecting most of topics listed on our Target Sites. We use their topics as our main topics. If we were to start an online group of perhaps 200 indexers, librarians , and interested searchers -- and if everyone in that group were to post their "favorite" or "bookmarked" sites on any topic ( for #4 above) on the links section of that Group, The resulting list of sites could be mined in the same way for topics by anyone. Please note that the topic(s) covered by the websites submitted need not match the topics on our final list of topics. We will "translate" the contributed topics to our controlled vocabulary of topics. If enough of us monkeys mine the resulting links-list for topics and articles -- at least one of us should come up with a good index to the entire Internet. Are you interested in helping start the group -- or joining, if I start it? Would you like to help us? See the “about” page. Your comments and analysis are invited. Marty Carbone / email / 12/22/2007

OUR PLANS TO CREATE A 3-CLICK ALPHABETICAL INTERNET
INDEX OF MORE THAN ONE MILLION ARTICLES. Updated 7/01/08.

This alphabeticalist.com (tm) section of this website is basically a prototype for such a 3-click system.

We have good reason to believe this system will be a whole lot more efficient than searching through
Google-like, fill-in-the-search-box windows.

We also believe the system will be more authoritative and easier to use than Wikipedia which does not
allow original work not previously published in encyclopedic language. The following is a direct quote from wikipedia. "Wikipedia does not publish original research or original thought. This includes unpublished facts, arguments, speculation, and ideas; and any unpublished analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position. This means that Wikipedia is not the place to publish your own opinions or experiences. Citing sources and avoiding original research are inextricably linked: to demonstrate that you are not presenting original research, you must cite reliable sources that provide information directly related to the topic of the article, and that directly support the information as it is presented."

Our system will use an alphabetical list of about 15,000 topics -- that is approximately four times the number
of topics (excluding proper nouns) covered by the NY Times.

The viewer will first see 26 alphabetical letters -- each letter will lead (in one click) to 1,000 or so topics -- or
about 15,000 in total.

When the list is mature -- each topic will lead, by a second click, to a separate page of about 65 abstracts of
articles, presentations or pages about the topic -- that will be about one million abstracts.

Each abstract will lead, by a third click, to a single complete article about the related subject (1,000,000 articles).

Each click will be the result of a single rational choice. It will be practically impossible to get lost. These articles are currently in place at various websites -- but they are not indexed efficiently.

Q: HOW WILL WE DECIDE ON THE TOPICS TO LIST?
A: WE WILL MINE THE EXISTING INTERNET.

This will all be done on this pro-bono site.
We will first list all of the existing (1) search-engine sites, (2) sites that have A-Z lists on any topic, (3) directory oriented sites and (4) sites that specialize on various topics.
We will mine all the sites on those lists and make an A-Z list of all the main topics on those sites. For each topic, we will then list all the sites we can find that have “good” (“good” will be determined by the indexer) information on that topic.
We have started by selecting most of topics listed on our Target Sites. We use their topics as our main topics.
If we were to start an online group of perhaps 200 indexers, librarians , and interested searchers -- and if everyone in that group were to post their "favorite" or "bookmarked" sites on any topic ( for #4 above) on the links section of that Group, The resulting list of sites could be mined in the same way for topics by anyone.
Please note that the topic(s) covered by the websites submitted need not match the topics on our final list of topics. We will "translate" the contributed topics to our controlled vocabulary of topics.
If enough of us monkeys mine the resulting links-list for topics and articles -- at least one of us should come up with a good index to the entire Internet.
Are you interested in helping start the group -- or joining, if I start it?