Coincidentally that some folks on this list mentioned Nvivo, Tom Richards (co-founder with wife Lyn) of Nudist/Nvivo gave a demo of the new Nvivo7 qualitative analysis software yesterday. It looked wonderful. It's a totally rewitten integration of N6 (ex Nud*ist) and Nvivo2. And has some hooks into statistical analysis packages, such as SPSS. BTW, Tom & Lyn have recently retired as active employees of QSR, the company they founded re their product. They remain connected. Had lovely dinner with Tom last night, who is going to pursue his astronomy hobby. One nice story is that Nudist's name got changed to N4 because (a) some US universities balked at buying such a risque product (even when spelled Nud*ist), and then when the Internet took off, some prudish filters wouldn't let messages through with Nudist in the subject line. This is NOT an April Fool's story. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________