It is unfortunate, but there's a simple explanation. When they dreamed it up last year, Susan Crawford et al. chose the "same date every year" model rather than the "4th Friday in September" (as it was in 2006) or some other model. I don't think they need to atone for that! Julie -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 5:13 PM To: aoir list Subject: [Air-L] one web day conflict It's unfortunate that OneWebDay comes on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish religion -- when we do without. Whoever creating the scheduling mismatch has something to atone for. Fortunately, they can do it this Saturday. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Room 418 Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-7162 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing "Return to Sender" these days _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ The 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/