fyi 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 You're invited to visit & contribute to the new version of "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________ Call it open-source philosophy, or deep thought for the networked age. A Berlin-based group dubbed Dropping Knowledge is drawing 112 high-profile artists, activists, intellectuals and policymakers to the German capital on Saturday, Sept. 9, to discuss the world's most pressing questions, as submitted and rated by you, the internet community. The Table of Free Voices event, to be held in what was once the Nazis' favorite book-burning square, will see participants from Bill Joy to Cindy Sheehan spend a day discussing the top 100 user-suggested questions. Each individual answer will be filmed, transcribed, translated and put online to seed a discussion site that organizers hope will stay active afterwards, and ultimately help spark social change. You can see the site at http://www.droppingknowledge.org/ And questions at http://www.droppingknowledge.org/bin/dk?ph=questions