So I'm sorry to have been out of touch, but projects here at MSR are blasting ahead at top speed. It's pretty exciting, really. One of my favorite innovations is that we're developing new ways to look at our Usenet overview system, Netscan.
Netscan has been collecting message headers for four or five years now, and tracks lots of statsitics per-author, per-newsgroup, or in several other combinations.
You can now get an RSS feed for virtually every page of netscan -- get the newest statistics, datasets, and percentages for your favorite author, newsgroup, or thread delivered right to your door!
http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/Tech has lots of "RSS" buttons on it that will follow your favorite (technical) newsgroup.
Technical, incidentally, because Netscan scrapes those daily. Nontechnical newsgroups are still batched up onto a hard disk and only updated once a month.
It's kind of fun.
January 12, 2005 05:40 PM | TrackBack | in Data and Documents