We already know how to search Google while we sleep, and how to check automatically for changes in websites. Now here's a site that lets you check for key words and phrases in new Usenet postings.
NetNews Tracker searches the Google Groups database daily to find out what's happening in the news groups. The first time you will receive all relevant usenet postings in the past month: after that, you just get the new ones.
Signing up is a simple enough process, and it will do three daily searches for you for nothing. All in all, potentially a useful new way to navigate what is still an underused Internet resource. And it works while you're asleep.
I'm pleased to say the heavily-rewritten Second Edition of my Magazine Editing book is now available. That's it over there on the right.
Typically, my pleasure at having both paperback and hardback editions in my sweaty hands has been somewhat dampened by the discovery of a mistake (my mistake) in the captioning of one of the illustrations. Such is the author's lot.
Anyway, it remains the only modern book on the subject and might prove helpful should you find yourself at the top end of the slippery pole of journalistic success.
I would place a link here to Amazon, but sadly Taylor & Francis, the publishers, have not yet managed to tell Amazon that there is a new edition.