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08-22-2003, 01:00 AM

Jason Dunn Executive Editor Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 29,160		Microsoft's In-House Sociologist http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065298.html "Ever get the feeling your Usenet newsgroup list is being watched? By Microsoft? If so, consider yourself right. Thanks to the expertise of sociologist Marc Smith, Microsoft is keeping a close eye on newsgroups and other public e-mail lists, which it has identified as the Internet's undervalued "knowledge management application." In Microsoft's research and development labs, Smith has spent the past several years slicing and dicing data about messages and message authors in an ambitious effort to help people make sense of the newsgroup manifold--the hordes of know-it-alls, flame warriors, spammers and neophytes who, by Smith's estimate, last year numbered more than 100 million in the Usenet network of e-mail threads, or newsgroups. Smith's idea is that you can tell a lot about the quality of data by tracking its newsgroup contributors' social habits--a notion that holds promise for sorting through millions of messages, and peril for a online world increasingly skittish about invasions of privacy. Following the launch of Microsoft's NetScan application for analyzing newsgroups and the people who post to them, Smith spoke to CNET News.com about NetScan, about Microsoft's interest in e-mail lists and about an application under development that would link objects in the real world to an array of online information." __________________ Want to contact me personally? Use this. Want to read my personal blog? Check it out. Want to follow me on Twitter? Here you go.

08-22-2003, 02:27 AM

David Prahl Pontificator Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 1,398		:duh:I'm afraid to say ANYTHING!:duh: __________________ The One Nerd Band www.davidprahl.com

08-22-2003, 02:40 AM

Jonathan1 Pontificator Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,329		:worried: __________________ PDA History: Palm Pilot 5000 -> Apple Newton 2100 -> Casio E-11 -> iPaq 3650 (64MB Upgrade) -> iPaq 3700 -> Casio EM-500 -> HP Jornada 568 -> HP iPaq hx4705 www.spreadfirefox.com

08-22-2003, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by David Prahl

:duh:I'm afraid to say ANYTHING!:duh:

According to our database your statement tells me...:
# You had porridge and an apple for breakfast
# You drive a Volvo estate
# You enjoy going to the cinema on Friday evenings

We're watching you... :wink:

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