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Call for Papers and Participation: HCSNet Workshop on Natural User Interfaces: Multitouch and Gestural Interactions
by Aaron Tan 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Dear AoIR-lers, Please spread the word about this workshop happening in Melbourne, Australia on June 28 & 29. Thanks, Aaron. -----Original Message----- Call for Papers and Participation: HCSNet Workshop on Natural User Interfaces: Multitouch and Gestural Interactions What is the next major evolution in user interaction? HCSNet is offering a workshop that brings together people from different disciplines interested in Natural User Interfaces (NUI). This workshop will discuss the role NUI can play, themes of interest as well as future work that NUI enables. Do gestures completely replace typical mouse pointers or simply augment it for some functionality? Do all applications work with gestures or only a select few? The goal of this workshop is to make a first step in identifying challenges and characterising NUI design obstacles. Possible themes of interest include: * Multimodal interfaces * Robust spoken-language interaction * Intelligent user interfaces * Social interaction strategies * Gesture and embodied interaction * Conversational agents * Task and activity modelling * Environment-specific issues * Tangible and mobile devices We are pleased to announce a keynote presentation by Daniel Wigdor. Daniel is the User Experience Architect on the Microsoft Surface project, where he leads a team developing fundamentals of touch and gestural interaction. Before joining Microsoft, he conducted research in advanced user interfaces and devices at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, at the Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard University, and at the University of Toronto where he completed an MSc and a PhD in computer science, specializing in multi-surface direct-touch environments. Learn more about Daniel Wigdor. Our second international speaker is Jamie Zigelbaum. Jamie is now working at Oblong Industries in Los Angeles. He was a PhD student in the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab where he built and studied next generation computer interfaces. He specializes in gestural and tangible interfaces and works to create new interactions between humans and machines that enable the full use of our evolutionarily developed skills, expressive capabilities, and nuanced social behaviors. Oblong Industries is the developer of the g-speak spatial operating environment. Find out more about Oblong Industries. This workshop examines the NUI field as a base for future work within a multidisciplinary environment. The hope of this workshop is to develop a series of themes and design practices which have the potential to act as a base for future collaboration. We encourage those interested to participate in this workshop. Participants are required submit a short abstract discussing their thoughts on this field, and how it can fit within their existing work. HCSNet will fund a number of travel grants of up to $500 to help cover the costs of travel and accommodation for participants from outside the Melbourne area. For more information please visit: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2010/nui10

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Call for Chapter Proposals: Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use
by John.Lannon 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: August 27th, 2010 Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use A book edited by John Lannon (University of Limerick, Ireland), Edward F. Halpin (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) and Steven Hick (Ottawa University, Canada) To be published by IGI Global Website: http://tinyurl.com/33hy2zw INTRODUCTION Intergovernmental agencies, governments and non-governmental organizations are now using Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to collect, organize and disseminate information on peoples' rights, the promotion of human rights, and the protection of individuals and communities at risk. These efforts have moved beyond the traditional human rights regime, as more attention is being paid to rights based approaches to development, and to the interconnectedness of environmental protection, climate change and the wellbeing of humanity. As a result, ICT policies and practices are having an even more far-reaching effect on the enjoyment of human rights by all. Since 2001 ICTs have transformed the capacity of organisations, movements and oppressed communities to highlight human rights abuse, and to advocate for causes and victims of oppression. They make it easier to share and to access information; they facilitate human rights data aggregation and analysis; they offer innovative tactical approaches to campaigning; and they precipitate real-world campaigning and lobbying activities. They enable global participation, and give local actors and previously invisible groups international visibility. At the same time the features that make ICTs an effective tool for the promotion and protection of human rights also make them useful in the exploitation of people and the violation of human rights. They contribute directly and indirectly to the abuse of children, for example; they facilitate the distribution of material that is hostile to racial and religious groups; they threaten the security and the privacy of individuals; and they contribute to the operation of international trafficking and other criminal activities. OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use will provide a comprehensive examination of the use and application of information and communication technologies in the world of human rights. This will contribute significantly to understandings of the impact of ICTss on the promotion and protection of human rights in societies around the world. TARGET AUDIENCE This book will provide a valuable tool and insight for academics from a range of fields, including information management, information systems, communications, information technology, international relations, human rights, politics, law, and sociology. It will also be useful to international non-governmental organisations, non-governmental organisations, and governments, for policy and practice. RECOMMENDED TOPICS include, but are not limited to, the following: - the impact of ICT policies on human rights; - the role of information in the promotion and protection of human rights; - the opportunities and pitfalls of ICTs for human rights campaigning; - ICTs and human rights education; - Human rights activism in the information age; - communication rights, privacy and free speech; - human rights and the Internet; - ICTs and gender-based rights - Information systems deployment in human rights - Mobile technologies and their application to human rights - Human rights organizations and the application/deployment of ICT - Information security - Information poverty, exclusion, and social, economic and cultural implications SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before August 27th, 2010, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by October 8th 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by December 17th, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. PUBLISHER This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011. IMPORTANT DATES August 27, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline October 8, 2010: Notification of Acceptance December 17, 2010: Full Chapter Submission February 18, 2011: Review Results Returned May 20, 2011: Final Chapter Submission September 30, 2011: inal Deadline Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to: John Lannon Centre for Information and Knowledge Management S1-20, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, IRELAND Tel.: +353 87 8225087 E-mail: john.lannon(a)ul.ie

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40-minute interview on Wisconsin Public Radio about Twitter, New New Media, and Iran
by Paul Levinson 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

The interview was conducted at 7am this morning. You can listen to it anytime at http://clipcast.wpr.org:8080/ramgen/wpr/jca/jca090624b.rm PL

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Ranking Web of Universities: July 2009 edition
by Isidro F. Aguillo 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

The July edition of the Ranking Web of World Universities (http://www.webometrics.info) shows important news. Most of them are due to changes done to improve the academic impact of the open web contents and to reduce the geographical bias of search engines. As a result, the US universities still lead the Ranking (MIT with its huge Open Courseware is again the first, followed by Harvard, Stanford and Berkeley), but the digital gap with their European counterparts (Cambridge and Oxford are in the region’s top) has been reduced. Even more important, some of the developing countries institutions reach high ranks, especially in Latin America where the University of Sao Paulo (38th) and UNAM (44th) benefits from the increasingly interconnected Brazilian and Mexican academic webspaces. Several countries improves their performance including Taiwan and Saudi Arabia with strong web oriented strategies, Czech Republic (Charles), the leader for Eastern Europe, Spain (Complutense) and Portugal (Minho, Porto) with huge repositories and strong Open Access initiatives. Norway (NTNU, Oslo), Egypt could be also mentioned. On the other side, the underrated are headed by France, with a very fragmented system, Korea, whose student-oriented websites are frequently duplicated, New Zealand, India or Argentina. Africa is still monopolized by South African universities (Cape Town is the first, 405th), as well as Australian Universities are the best ranked for Oceania (Australian National University, 77th) Other well performing institutions include Cornell or Caltech in the USA, Tokyo (24th) Toronto (28th), Hong Kong (91st), or Peking (104th). On the contrary, in positions below expected we find Yale, Princeton, Saint Petersburg, Seoul and the Indian Institutes of Science or Technology. Check out also: Ranking Web of Research Centers http://research.webometrics.info/ Ranking Web of Repositories http://repositories.webometrics.info/ Ranking Web of Hospitals http://hospitals.webometrics.info/ Ranking Web of Business Schools http://business-schools.webometrics.info/ -- ************************************* Isidro F. Aguillo, HonPhD Cybermetrics Lab CCHS - CSIC Albasanz, 26-28, 3C1. 28037 Madrid. Spain Ph. 91-602 2890. Fax: 91-602 2971 isidro.aguillo @ cchs.csic.es www. webometrics.info *************************************

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CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Quality in Techno-Social Systems
by Dario Taraborelli 11 Jul '10

11 Jul '10

(apologies for cross-posting) Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Quality in Techno-Social Systems at the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems SASO 2010 - September 28, 2010, Budapest, Hungary http://qlectives.eu/qteso Techo-social systems are ICT systems in which many people collectively coordinate and cooperate to achieve their goals without central control. These systems, for example Wikipedia, eBay, Web2.0 sites, social networks and peer-to-peer networks, have both self-organizing and self-adaptive aspects. In this workshop we aim to put the quality aspect of these complex systems into focus. Quality outcome can be produced by the individual users through selecting, producing and rating certain kinds of content. For example, trust and reputation may emerge among a community and be used to enhance quality. The workshop will consider mechanisms by which individual peers can be brought together automatically into collectives whose members share interests and agree about the evaluation of quality in the domain. The SASO conference focuses on how to make computer systems operate autonomously in a reliable, efficient and useful way with minimal user or operator intervention. The workshop addresses this very problem narrowing the focus down to techno-social systems. The question we ask is: how can one let a system self-organize to a high quality, desirable state, where users and their behavior form an integral part of the system (i.e., a techno-social system), and where self-organization at the system level has to be aligned with self-organization at the social level. The workshop is centered around the following technical issues: * incentive mechanisms for self-organizing and self-adaptive systems * evolving social interaction structures for quality * ranking, rating, reputation and recommendation in distributed systems * conflict and consensus detection, correction in distributed systems * realistic models of user behaviour and the dynamic social structures that they create * analysis of empirical and experimental data for quality * computational sociology of online communities * distributed social networks * quality metrics - how to measure in distributed systems Papers are welcome from the fields of theoretical and algorithmic foundations, algorithm design and simulation, as well as empirical data-sets collection, processing and validation. Audience The workshop is inherently interdisciplinary. Relevant areas include: sociology and psychology,in particular, the evolution of cooperation, opinion dynamics, the evolution of norms and trust relationships, etc; physics, in particular complex (social and technical) networks and models of the dynamics of group behavior; computer science, in particular P2P systems, data mining (ranking and recommendation), information retrieval, and distributed systems. Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers that are neither accepted nor submitted elsewhere. All submissions will be carefully peer reviewed by the program committee. Inclusion in Proceedings The proceedings of all SASO workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as a bundle with the main conference proceedings, and made available as a part of the IEEE digital library. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: July 12, 2010 Acceptance Notification: August 6, 2010 Camera-ready version: August 20, 2010 Early registration deadline: August 13, 2010 Workshop: September 28, 2010 Author Guidelines Submissions should not exceed 6 pages and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and submitted electronically in pdf format. Please register as authors and submit your papers using the conference management system that will be linked at the http://qlectives.eu/qteso website well in advance of the submission deadline. Organization Comittee Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, UK Mark Jelasity, Hungarian Academy of Science and University of Szeged, Hungary Tamas Vinko, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Program Committee Fred Amblard, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, France Nazareno Andrade, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Alastair Gill, University of Surrey, UK David Hales, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Dirk Helbing, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Sergi Lozano, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Matus Medo, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Andrzej Nowak, University of Warsaw, Poland Johan Pouwelse, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Camille Roth, CNRS, France Dario Taraborelli, University of Surrey, UK Yi-Cheng Zhang, University of Fribourg, Switzerland -- Dario Taraborelli Research Fellow Centre for Research in Social Simulation University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH United Kingdom http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk http://nitens.org/taraborelli Editor, Review of Philosophy and Psychology http://www.springer.com/13164

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Re: [Air-L] Studying online community
by Scott MacLeod 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }I added these here: http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Papers#Norms.2C_Conventions.2C… [1] (Not sure why this list garbles my emails; no other lists do). Scott Scott MacLeod World University and School http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University POB 442 86 Ridgecrest Rd. Canyon, CA 94516 415 480 4577 http://scottmacleod.com scott(a)scottmacleod.com On Sun 27/06/10 2:09 PM , Caroline Haythornthwaite haythorn(a)illinois.edu sent: Let's start you off with some recent collections from AoIR members. The 2010 American Behavioral Scientist issue in particular is on target for your interests. /Caroline Haythornthwaite, C. & Wellman, B. (Eds.) (2008). Special issue of papers selected from the 2007 AoIR conference. Information, Communication and Society, 11(2), whole issue. Haythornthwaite, C. & Kendall, L. (Eds.) (2009). AoIR Special Issue. Information, Communication and Society, 12(3), whole issue. Haythornthwaite, C. & Kendall, L. (Eds.) (2010). AoIR Special Issue. Information, Communication and Society, 13(3), whole issue. Haythornthwaite, C. & Kendall, L. (Eds.) (2010). Internet and Community. American Behavioral Scientist, 53(8), whole issue. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:22:26 +0300 >From: Annamari Martinviita >Subject: [Air-L] Studying online community >To: > >Hello everyone, > >I'm just getting started on my PhD studies, unfunded as yet, regarding >new social technologies and online communities and would really >appreciate any hints, tips and advice members of this list may have on >good information sources, relevant publications, events and so on. > >Broadly speaking, I'm interested in how communities extend from the >online to the offline and vice versa, how participation in online >communities becomes part of every-day life, how the lines between >offline and online communication and relationship building are blurred >as access to online social tools becomes ubiquitous. More specifically, >I am looking at how new social technologies affect local communities and >what developers should take into consideration while creating new tools >with a view of fostering online community. I hope to come up with >results that offer an insight into how the concept of community is >changing for members of a hyper-connected society, and the implications >of that change for local communities. My research approach is ethnographic. > >It would be great to hear from others with similar interests, and also >perhaps to discover fellow "sufferers" at similar stages of their >academic careers, for a bit of mutual support and encouragement. :) Of >course, any advice would be hugely appreciated! > >Best regards, > >Annamari Martinviita >PhD student >University of Oulu, Finland > >_______________________________________________ >The mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ -------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Institute of Education, University of London (2009-10) Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820 () _______________________________________________ The mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ Links: ------ [1] http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Papers#Norms.2C_Conventions.2C…

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MindTime > Past / Present / Future
by gerrymck 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

Colleagues/ I Would Appreciate The Views Of The AIR-L List >>> /Gerry Diffusion of Innovations is a theory of how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures. [snip] The publication of a study of Ryan and Gross on the diffusion of hybrid corn in Iowa[3] was the first sustainably visible contribution in a broader interest in innovations which was especially popularized by the textbook by Everett Rogers (1962), Diffusion of Innovations (Rogers 1962). He defines diffusion as "the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system." [snip] Diffusion of an innovation occurs through a five–step process. This process is a type of decision-making. It occurs through a series of communication channels over a period of time among the members of a similar social system. Ryan and Gross first indicated the identification of adoption as a process in 1943 (Rogers 1962, p. 79). Rogers categorizes the five stages (steps) as: awareness, interest, evaluation, trial, and adoption. An individual might reject an innovation at anytime during or after the adoption process. In later editions of the Diffusion of Innovations Rogers changes the terminology of the five stages to: knowledge, persuasion, decision, implementation, and confirmation. However the descriptions of the categories have remained similar throughout the editions. [snip] Rogers defines an adopter category as a classification of individuals within a social system on the basis of innovativeness. In the book Diffusion of Innovations, Rogers suggests a total of five categories of adopters in order to standardize the usage of adopter categories in diffusion research. The adoption of an innovation follows an S curve when plotted over a length of time.[10] The categories of adopters are: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards (Rogers 1962, p. 150) BTW: Rogers is an Iowa native who attended Iowa State [:-)] This Weekend I Had An Epiphany >>> Would It Be (More) Useful To Consider Innovation And Its Adoption As A Matter Of One's Time Zone >>> That Is > One's Temporal Orientation > The Past And/Or The Present And/Or The Future ? I Would Most Appreciate Your Thoughts On This WorldView / Please Post As A Comment On The Associated Blog Entry At [ http://bit.ly/b6UdDE ] I Would Also Appreciate Any/All Relevant Cites/Sites >>> BTW: It Just Learned Of A Key Site That Has Exactly What I Had In Mind [:-)] And Have Sited It In The Blog Entry >>> Great Minds Do Think A-Like >>> Thanks ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs >>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>>

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Ruth Martínez wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn
by Ruth Martínez 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

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tic&société numéro « Interactivité et lien social »
by Éric GEORGE 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

COMMUNIQUÉ 29 juin 2010 La revue tic&société lance son nouveau numéro sur « Interactivité et lien social » La revue électronique tic&société (http://ticetsociete.revues.org/) est heureuse d'annoncer la sortie d'un nouveau numéro sur l'interactivité coordonné par le professeur Christian Papilloud de l'Université de Caen Basse-Normandie. Ce numéro, consacré aux rapports entre le lien social et les technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC) dites interactives, comprend cinq contributions qui témoignent de la permanence du questionnement sur cette notion polysémique. Comme l'annonce le coordonnateur du dossier, on a « l'impression que le concept, couramment utilisé aujourd'hui, a une définition stable ». Or, ce nouveau dossier de la revue tic&société montre que nous avons le devoir de « déconstruire (les) idées reçues ». De plus, en engageant la réflexion sur la question du lien social, Christian Papilloud propose d'analyser « l'enjeu de société que constitue l'interactivité [] généralement sous-évalué ». Pour ce faire, la première contribution introduit la réflexion sur l'interactivité et cède ensuite la parole aux auteurs pour inviter les lecteurs à la déconstruction de l'évidence de l'interactivité. En lançant ce nouveau numéro, tic&société souhaite apporter une contribution pour « réinterroger l'interactivité [et] encourager des contributions en langue française souvent difficiles à repérer au milieu d'une littérature majoritairement anglophone qui domine sur ce thème ». Voici le sommaire du vol. 4, n° 1 | 2010 : Christian Papilloud, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie Introduction Christian Papilloud, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie L'interactivité Bernhard Rieder, Université de Paris 8 Vincennes à Saint Denis De la communauté à l'écume : quels concepts de sociabilité pour le « web social » ? Alain Vaucelle et Henri Hudrisier, Télécom Sud Paris et Université de Paris 8 Vincennes à Saint Denis Langages structurés et lien social Catherine Lejealle, Télécom Paris Tech Dans quelle mesure la TV sur mobile est-elle interactive ? Guillaume Latzko-Toth, Université du Québec à Montréal Le chat est-il (encore) un média interactif? Varia Mariangela Roselli, Université de Toulouse 2 Le Mirail Formes de réception et d'appropriation des ressources numériques en milieu étudiant tic&société a récemment rejoint le portail de revues en sciences humaines et sociales Revues.org qui comprend 250 revues et collections ainsi que 114 carnets de recherche (http://www.revues.org) tic&societe constitue, depuis trois ans, un lieu d'échanges scientifique multidisciplinaire, international et francophone.

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Fwd: AAUP Conference Insights?
by Alex Halavais 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

Hi, all, I spoke at the American Association of University Presses meeting last week in SLC (only one other AoIRer there). It was a pretty good conference, and so I followed up with the program chair on how things were organized. It's a bit easier on him since they have fewer parallel sessions, and they are generally organized by panel organizers. However, it's similar in size to IR. See below. Best, Alex ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gregory Britton <gbritton(a)getty.edu> Date: Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:45 PM Subject: Re: AAUP Conference Insights? To: Alex Halavais <alex(a)halavais.net> Hi Alex: The AAUP has their conference planning down pretty tight, but that's partly because they have an office staff to handle all the logistics. As chair, my responsibilities were strictly programmatic--assemble a small committee, pick topics, and draft speakers. We (the committee) also took on the responsibility of promoting the meeting with the social networking things (Facebook and Twitter). This was new for the meeting and proved very effective. The office staff (basically one person focused on this--Susan Patton at the AAUP spatton(a)aaupnet.org) negotiated the hotel arrangements, rooms, field trips, meals, assembling the printed program, and multiple receptions. She also handled all the exhibitors. Susan is an organizational force and has the details down. This is crucial. As I understand it, the AAUP commits to a multi-year contract with some chain hotel to get the best rates, but this limits the cities the board can select from. This partly explains Salt Lake. With the Marriott chain, for every Washington or Philadelphia you are forced to take an Oklahoma City or Salt Lake or some other desperate little town. It's how they spread the conference business around their network of hotels. The AAUP is committed to some geographic diversity so they try for at least one western meeting ever 3-4 years. They also occasionally do a Canadian meeting, but never venture much father than that. Having said the AAUP has their system down, they don't deal with change very easily. Asking for free wi-fi in all rooms seemed to flummox them--hotels charge extra for this--and the idea of marketing the meeting seemed to escape them until we demonstrated how it could be done effectively. Given the location and publishing economy, they were praying for 400 attendees. They got about 535 including some walk-ins which still amazes me. Lost people from the lost tribe? Anyway, please ask other questions -- My best, Greg Gregory M. Britton Publisher | Getty Publications 1200 Getty Center Drive | Suite 500 Los Angeles, CA 90049 (T) 310 440 6066 | gbritton(a)getty.edu www.gettypublications.org -- // // This email is // [ ] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [x] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais, ciberflâneur // http://alex.halavais.net //

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