Martin, I have been thinking about both the transition and metric issues for sometime. When I teach entry-level informatics, one of our writing assignments is for each student to do a form of "technobiography." The term was coined in "Cyborg Lives? Women's Technobiographies." As most things can be on the internet, when I started using the term with my classes in 2005 the only sites, found via Google search, were those related to the authors of the original work. Now I see the term is gaining some traction. Technobiographies are the only clear way I see in teasing out technological migration. Right now I'm only using them as a writing assignment...but I have plans for future research using their writing as data. After diss of course. Reference List Henwood, Flis, Kennedy, Helen M. T., & Miller, Nod (2001). Cyborg Lives? Women's Technobiographies. York UK: Raw Nerve Books Limited. Kennedy, Helen M. T. (Winter 2003). Technobiography: Researching lives, online and off. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 26(1), 120-139. Abstract available at http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=GM2P8hQwx9Hs0hpk7vnM03LJ... Lois Ann Scheidt Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA Adjunct Instructor - School of Informatics, IUPUI, Indianapolis IN USA and IUPUC, Columbus IN USA Webpage: http://www.loisscheidt.com Blog: http://www.professional-lurker.com