In my few idle fleeting moments, I have to say I've been thinking about the problem of RSSifying (or Atomizing, if you prefer) Usenet newsgroup feeds and Mailing lists. Google just released a beta set of Atom feeds for Google Groups (for example, comp.lang.python), which is very neat but (I suspect) only marginally useful.

Laughing Meme has thoughts also here and here. A lot of tool support will be needed to make this really useful. Expect to hear more from us in the future about this.