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Microsoft's Usenet Management Tool
MSR Netscan - Usenet Social Accounting Search Engine: Microsoft is testing a new tool to collate Usenet postings. It's pretty simply in theory you bulk load Usenet postings into a database, then mine the results to make everything easier to wade through. This demo examines postings from Microsoft's own ...
Published: July 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
AOL to Drop Usenet
AOL discontinuing newsgroup service: Obviously, you can still get them through Google Groups, but is it the same? America Online says it will no longer provide subscribers with access to Usenet newsgroups. When you visit keyword "newsgroups" while signed on to the service, a pop-up appears with the following message: ...
Published: January 24, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 981
Early Usenet Posts
20 Year Archive on Google Groups: Here's an oldie but a goodie that I stumbled on again today. Google mined its Usenet archive for the first mention of various events and pop culture icons. For instance, the first mention of Michael Jordan was dated to February 1993 by some guy ...
Published: April 8, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 902
Consequences for Email and Usenet Threats
Former Global Crossing employee convicted of threatening executives on Internet: This guy was convicted today and faces 30 years in prison. He got fired from now-defunct company Global Crossing, and he wasn't happy about it. The official charge was "using a Web site to threaten" someone. Sutcliffe, 42, directed threats ...
Published: December 5, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 853
RSS as NNTP
Genecast: A very smooth idea. Convert RSS feeds into Usenet-compatible newsgroups so people with NNTP readers (like Outlook Express) can view them by monitoring the "newsgroup." I'm beginning to think RSS is simply private Usenet anyway. (I do, however, have to question the intelligence of using a sperm as your ...
Published: August 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 844
Origins of Spam
Spam (Monty Python) - Wikipedia: You ever wonder how the term "spam" came about? Well, apparently there was a Monty Python sketch that ended with a bunch of people yelling the word "Spam" so you couldn't hear someone else talking, and... "The phenomenon, some years later, of marketers drowning out ...
Published: July 4, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 722
Godwin's Law
Godwin's Law: There's so much about the Internet that I don't know yet. Godwin's Law (also Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies) is, in Internet culture, an adage originated in 1990 by Mike Godwin that states: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler ...
Published: April 2, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 709
FAQ Archive
Internet FAQ Archives -  Online Education: The repository of all the Usenet FAQs. Browse these babies by newsgroup heirarchy and you never know what you'll find. Look hard enough, and you may even find one that I helped write. At the very least, I bet you didn't know there were ...
Published: December 16, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 709
Google Base
Google Base Was Sort of Live: Oh crap -- Google is finally making the inevitable play to own everything. The one, true universal database. Someone call Fabian. Google Base is Google's database into which you can add all types of content. We'll host your content and make it searchable online ...
Published: October 25, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 697
Sollog and Wikipedia
Usenet Psychic Wars With Wikipedia: This is absolutely hysterical Unable to accept that Wikipedia's policy of presenting a Neutral Point of View means that an article on Sollog would have to include both pro- and anti-Sollog material, and unable to force other Wikipedia editors to accept his version of reality, ...
Published: December 14, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 695
Blogs in the Enterprise
NewsGator Case Study: Triple Point Technology: This is a great case study by the guys over at NewsGator about integrating blogs and RSS into the enterprise. "Internal weblogs were created using Six Apart's Movable Type. Internal authors are accustomed to sending email, but now post certain information to their new ...
Published: July 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 692
My Contribute Purchasing Experience
There's a class of product that fits into a crappy pricing slot. It's a slot where a purchaser isn't going to make a purchase right away, because they're going to have a lot of questions. But at the same time, individual sales of the product aren't expensive enough for the ...
Published: February 4, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 689
Interesting Stuff in the New York Times Archive
Gems from the archive of the New York Times (kottke.org): I could kiss Jason Kottke for this. It s a look through the newly-opened archives of the New York Times for interesting stuff. Now that the NY Times has discontinued their Times Select subscription program and made much more of their ...
Published: September 19, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 686
IMDb History
Internet Movie Database - Wikipedia: An interesting few paragraphs on the history of the IMDb. The database started out in 1990 as a collection of shell scripts created by Col Needham which could be used to search the FAQs posted to the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.movies. In 1993, a centralized e-mail ...
Published: July 17, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 683
Nethack
This week's Friday diversion is not one to pick up lightly. Nethack has been destroying the social skills and tanned complexions of geeks for years. It's a "Rogue-like" game that was originally written for old UNIX systems in the early 80's as an adventure game that could be played on ...
Published: September 26, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 655
The First Spams
I'm reading Packt's new book on SpamAssassin, and it's shaping up to be a good one. More on the entire book later, but I found some interesting tidbits on the history of spam in the first few pages. The first spam ever sent was on May 3, 1978 from a ...
Published: January 7, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 642
Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang! The Premier James Bond Web Site: This is a small tribute to the end of a site I helped build. Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was -- at one time -- the most amazing James Bond site ever. I was one of the four founding ...
Published: May 18, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 634
Mensches, Lovecats, and Drive By Altruism
This weekend, I was struggling with a .Net / XML / XSLT problem. I'm not a big .Net guy, but I've been working with it for the last few months on a big project for Blend. Brian, from MyHomepoint has been a huge help as I've gotten my feet wet ...
Published: February 19, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 576
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