I'm with Barry on this one. The time I spend searching for people's twitter names is time I'd rather be live-tweeting their talk and name-checking them properly... Johnny. Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk> tel: +44 1524 592591<tel:+44%201524%20592591> Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger<http://twitter.com/#!/johnnyunger> On 28 Nov 2013, at 19:39, "Barry Wellman" <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca<mailto:wellman@chass.utoronto.ca>> wrote: Dear Ms Gas, Many people at meetings need every encouragement to communicate and will not bother to search. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ On Thu, 28 Nov 2013, maxigas wrote: Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 20:21:51 +0100 (CET) From: maxigas <maxigas@anargeek.net<mailto:maxigas@anargeek.net>> To: wellman@chass.utoronto.ca<mailto:wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> Cc: air-l@aoir.org<mailto:air-l@aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] what not to do at meetings From: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca<mailto:wellman@chass.utoronto.ca>> Subject: [Air-L] what not to do at meetings Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:02:07 -0500 I just came from a meeting of internet researchers which did not give either e-addresses or twitter handles on badges or on the list of researchers. Oi vey ironic comment? given any of name / email / twitter, the other two is trivial to find using a search engine, no? i guess if you find someone interesting and pay attention than you can work out at least one of those during the conference. too hard? i recommend http://contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complete-user/ -- maxigas, kiberpunk 0x787963BC287ED166 http://research.metatron.sh/ sent from my all purpose automatic digital computing system * * |metatron * * |research * * |unit FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto: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/