Sincere apologies to those of you who have had problems registering and paying fees through Paypal for the IR 9.0 conference. I'm happy to report that we are once again ready to take your money and include you in the programme - that's program for those of you who are still learning english! But please follow those online instructions carefully to make sure you register and pay all in one go. Any problems just let me know and we will get you through it somehow. I should also apologise for my presumption that presenters could easily amend their details and abstracts on the online system. This seems to be more problematic so I will be asking participants to send their titles, abstracts and biogs directly to me in the near future. Brian Brian D. Loader, Co-Director, Social Informatics Research Unit, Department of Sociology, Wentworth College, University of York, Heslington, YORK YO1 5DD. United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0) 1904 432639 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 433043 email: bl506@york.ac.uk