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Thursday, May 15, 2003
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Applied social network analysis. Somehow Eric Promislow's Amazing Baconizer escaped my attention until Eric mentioned it to me recently. Eric was co-creator of OmniMark, an ahead-of-its-time XML-oriented programming language, and is a senior developer at ActiveState. "The Baconizer," he says, "is where I go to play in your basic LABP world (I'm too lazy to replace Berkeley DB with My SQL)." I've seen a few other applications that automate the traversal of Amazon's "Customers who bought this book also bought..." links, but Eric's does so in a goal-directed way. Here, for example, is the 12-hop path from my book to my wife's book:
... [Jon's Radio]
9:33:33 PM 
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Indexing and searching Outlook email.
I never thought I'd find myself digging around in my Outlook message store, but Mark's SpamBayes addin -- which is written in Python -- turns out to be a great Python/MAPI tutorial. Borrowing heavily from his examples, I came up with a script to extract my Outlook mail to a bunch of files that I could feed to a standalone indexer. [Full story at O'Reilly Network]
... [Jon's Radio]
9:29:59 PM
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