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<TD><FONT face=arial color=#003366 size=2><I>Data Mining
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<P align=left><B>What is Netscan?</B> <BR>Netscan is a social
accounting reporting service for the Usenet. Netscan provides
reports on the activity of newsgroups and the histories of authors
in those newsgroups. The Microsoft Community Research Group created
Netscan as a service to the research community and a test-bed for
enhanced community services. Research Sociologist <A
href="http://research.microsoft.com/~masmith/">Marc Smith</A> leads
a small group of developers creating next generation community
interfaces. <BR><BR><B>How can I use Netscan?</B> <BR>Netscan is
publicly available at <A
href="http://netscan.research.microsoft.com">http://netscan.research.microsoft.com</A>.
<BR><BR><A href="http://netscan.research.microsoft.com"><FONT
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Data</B></FONT></A><BR>Keeping up with Usenet is a big challenge.
Growing rapidly, the Usenet feed is larger than 60GB a day. Netscan
now provides data for all the newsgroups we get in our feed from
January 1, 2000 through the end of August, 2001. Coming soon is data
for September 2001. Look for quicker data updates coming in the near
future. <BR><BR></P></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR>
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<P align=left>Netscan offers reports on all Usenet newsgroups that
we receive in our news feed, currently 130,000 newsgroups. Through
Netscan you can access newsgroup reports for any day, week, or month
starting from the first of January, 2000.<BR>Use Netscan to track
the activity of your favorite newsgroups and read the most active
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newsgroups</B></FONT></A> <BR>Sorting threads by size should be a
common news browser feature, but it isn't. Netscan now provides
reports on the biggest threads in every newsgroup for every day,
week, and month in the data set.<BR><BR></FONT><A
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starting from any set of anchor newsgroups you
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<BR>Identifying the most valuable authors in each newsgroup can be
an effective vector for finding the most valuable content. To
explore this approach, Netscan now offers an Author to Thread report
that lists the most frequently active participants in each newsgroup
and the threads they contributed to most often. This can be a great
way to highlight the most valuable content in each newsgroup.
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<P align=left>Get an overview of the entire Usenet in one glance!
Tree Maps are an interesting way to visualize large hierarchical
structures -- like Usenet! Our Tree Map service allows you to zoom
into just the neighborhood of newsgroups you are interested in and
generate maps for any month in the data set. <A
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face=arial color=#003366 size=2>The Netscan Project: Mapping the
Social Geography of Usenet News</A><BR>April,
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<TD vAlign=top><A
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face=arial color=#003366 size=2>Is Microsoft Smart- or Just
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<TD vAlign=top><FONT face=arial color=#003366 size=2>January 7-10,
2002 - Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, <A
href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/"><FONT face=arial color=#003366
size=2>HICSS 2002</A>, See in particular the <A
href="http://www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson/HICSS35pc.html"><FONT
face=arial color=#003366 size=2>Persistent Conversation
minitrack</A> and the <A
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color=#003366 size=2>HICSS Digital
Library</A>.</FONT><BR><BR></FONT></FONT></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD vAlign=top><FONT face=arial color=#003366 size=2>April 20-25,
2002 - ACM Computer Human Interaction Conference <A
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<TD vAlign=top><A href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemaps/"><FONT
face=arial color=#003366 size=2>Tree Maps for space-constrained
visualization of hierarchies</A> <BR></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD vAlign=top><A
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face=arial color=#003366 size=2>Cyber Geography
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<TD vAlign=top><A href="http://smg.media.mit.edu/"><FONT face=arial
color=#003366 size=2>MIT Media Lab Sociable Media
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face=arial color=#003366 size=2>Conversation
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<P align=left>Edited by: <A
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face=arial color=#003366 size=2>Marc Smith and Peter
Kollock</A><BR><A
target=href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415191408/investiofsocialc>Communities
in Cyberspace</A>is devoted to exploring new forms of social
organization and the changing concepts of community as social groups
develop within computer networks. Contributors examine changes in
the nature of personal identity, social organization and the
connections between real-world communities and their extensions in
cyberspace. Communities in Cyberspace is published by <A
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In association with Amazon.com, <A
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