While we're discussing origins: I invented the term "network of networks" in "The Network City" article with Paul Craven in Sociological Inquiry. As Casey said, "You could look it up." The term lay dormant for years even though I was proud of it and reused it in places such as our _Social Structures_ book (1988). It probably got reinvented independently when the internet came along. While we're discussing usages: I prefer "internet" to "Internet" both for scholarly reasons and because it is one less keystroke. However, I find in practice that my fingers want to write Internet, and I have too many fights to start another one with my fingers. I've just lost another one. I invariably write "email" and "e-mail". Also one less keystroke, and the way of the world is to compress away hyphenation over time. However, Sage's copyeditors insisted we go back to "e-mail" on the Bernie Hogan, Juan-Antonio Carrasco and BW article on Visualizing Social Networks that will come out sometime this year in _Social Networks_. And so it goes. Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________