elijah, This sounds like something that Lachlan Brown might have written. Are you serious or just trolling? Since you are the expert on "Trolling" how would you analyze your remarks? Pax Electronica, Sam elw@stderr.org wrote: I find this patently absurd. Attempting to name something doesn't create a new field of study. New paradigms are rooted in established fields. Sociologists, linguists, information scientists, and others are all doing groundbreaking work in just the area that TBL is "inventing". This looks more like an attempt to grab publicity and credibility on the part of TBL and MIT. Embarassing, to be sure. Incidentally, I don't see a whole lot of research from TBL these days, on *any* of the lists I participate in where people care about networks, the internet, or the web... or people's use of any of them. --elijah _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org 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/ --------------------------------- Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business.