They both were "in" on the gag. You can read Siva's reactions at his blog: www.sivacracy.net (scroll down - various posts) -michael ----- Michael T. Zimmer Doctoral Candidate, Media Ecology Department of Culture and Communication New York University e: michael.zimmer@nyu.edu w: http://michaelzimmer.org On Feb 17, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Greg Elmer wrote:

I wonder if Vaidhyanathan thought that it was brilliant. He was clearly made to look humourless. His colleague Mark Crispin Miller (I believe both from same dept. at NYU), got it even worse a few weeks back. Both were made to be horribly 'unhip' and out of touch with youth culture.

GE

On 2/16/06 6:26 PM, "david silver" <dsilver@u.washington.edu> wrote:

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folks,

for those interested in social networking sites like facebook and myspace, check out a brilliant clip, featuring Siva Vaidhyanathan, on The Daily Show here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4698898666405139932

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