The Blog Analysis Toolkit (BAT) now has over 60 users. If you are
studying blogs, please try out our beta version:
https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/qblog/page_login.php

There is a quick-start tutorial:
http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/bat-tutorial.htm

BAT is free and easy to use. It creates archives of blog posts in a
format that is ready to code in CAT:
http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/cat.htm

As a part of my move, there is a new QDAP called QDAP-UMass:
http://people.umass.edu/stu/QDAP-UMass/

The old QDAP will go on at Pitt and operate in a loose alliance or
federation with QDAP-UMass. We are going to keep on building tools for
capturing and coding text. Right now we are working on one to make it
easier to prepare large Lexis-Nexis searches for sorting and coding in
CAT. I hope to have this on the web soon.

thanks,
~Stu


-- 
Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst
http://people.umass.edu/stu/
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