Is anybody out there returning Usenet newsgroup messages as XML? No? Why not? Seems that hierarchially-organized plain text messages with lots of metadata might lend themselves to that sort of presentation.
Try this: Use the Google API to find messages in response to a query, then cache the result and map the returned message IDs to a private NNTP server with a custom front end that transforms the messages into XML. Give it a REST front end. And offer me RSS feeds of messages from newsgroups so I can read them in my microcontent browser headline syndicator. Or in Sherlock 3.0.
Dave pointed to this NNTP to XML-RPC gateway script today.
Why is everyone stealing my ideas and not crediting me?! Do I have to start filing software patents?! Bees! Bees in my hair!
You owe my hospital clinic a new computer, Anil, what with the coffee all over the monitor, keyboard, and face of this one...