It is with great sadness that I write to tell you that our colleague and good friend, Janet Salaff, has passed away today To many this will come as a surprise; others will know that she had been having neurological problems in the past few years. She entered into a coma on Thursday and never woke up. True to form, Janet died happy, having wine and dinner with friends, and planning her next tango trip to Argentina. and among good friends. Janet was known primarily an expert on Asian social networks: China, Singapore, HongKong, and Taiwan. However, she, I and Dima Dimitrova did a nice ethnographic study of teleworkers in a large corporation, and she was an active member of our Cavecat/Telepresence project's building and evaluating collaborative software. Some papers from this are on my website. There will be a memorial service, but we don't know when or where. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________