Sounds interesting.
I'd love to see some screenshots of some community graphs and main
characters in it....possible?

Otis

--- Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As long as we're kicking around what's new, here's mine.  I've been
> working
> on a system that finds topical Internet discussions (web forums,
> usenet,
> mailing lists) and does some analysis of who's who, looking for the
> people
> who connect communities together, lead discussions, etc.  At the
> moment,
> it's focusing on Java developers.  It's been quite interesting to see
> what
> it discovers in terms of how various subtopics are related and what
> other
> things that Java developers tend to be interested in.
> 
> Regarding markup, etc., in the back of my mind I've had the notion of
> enhancing my spider to recognize how to parse and recurse forums and
> list
> archives, so that I don't have to write new code for every different
> forum
> or archiving format.  But it's not something I'd be comfortable
> tossing out
> into the open, since it obviously would be a tool that spammers could
> use
> for address harvesting.
> 
> I'm essentially creating a toolbox with Python and MySQL, which I'm
> using to
> create custom information products for consulting clients.  For the
> moment,
> those (obviously) are companies with a strong interest in Java.
> 
> Nick
> 
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> Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198
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