Probably most readers of these lists know by now that one of our own Internet-Society people, Randal Pinket, won The Apprentice last week -- the lucrative and dubious pleasure of working in Donald Trump's Empire. Randal got his PhD from Sloan School of Business, MIT, and worked with Keith Hampton on his eNeighbors project. Possibly like me, you met Randal at a conference. What you may not have seen is this dialogue between The Donald and TV celeb interviewer Larry King December 19, 2005. King: I don't even know how to touch a blog. Do you know how to blog? ... Do you know how to reach a blogger? Trump: I have no idea. Everybody that works for me knows. Me? I have no interest. King: I have no idea how to reach a blogger. I've never sent an e-mail. I don't know what I'm doing." Source: Rick McGinnis, "Tube Talk." Toronto Metro, 21Dec05: 41 (rick.mcginnis@metronews.ca) PS: The subject was blog talk about whether Randal being an African-American had anything to do with his victory. 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 _____________________________________________________________________