***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Thanks to Ken Anderson, of Intel and Princeton for finding this Walt Whitman poem whose key line is The earth to be spann'd, connected by network. Called of all things A Passage to India So Walt had McLuhan and Forster beat https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.poetryfoundation.org_poems_50978_a-2Dpassage-2Dto-2Dindia&d=DwIBAg&c=pZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM&r=uXI5O6HThk1ULkPyaT6h2Ws3RKNKSY__GQ4DuS9UHhs&m=QyqEm0XFx0TGb5raaSJd33JQ1F-7du5_5cUpSsxtS4w&s=jhmdVuBDvBwDTisCwDVPxsX3toV9eyTYg9RH_CbSn8A&e= Barry Wellman A vision is just a vision if it's only in your head Step by step, link by link, putting it together Streisand/Sondheim _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Network FRSC INSNA Founder Distinguished Visiting Scholar Social Media Lab Ryerson University Distinguished Senior Advisor University Learning Academy NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.chass.utoronto.ca_-7Ewellman&d=DwIBAg&c=pZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM&r=uXI5O6HThk1ULkPyaT6h2Ws3RKNKSY__GQ4DuS9UHhs&m=QyqEm0XFx0TGb5raaSJd33JQ1F-7du5_5cUpSsxtS4w&s=OuT8NXD_8gWedC2ZbRcN8Exgoa1bjCSLQ9vveYVDEhU&e= https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__amzn.to_zXZg39&d=DwIBAg&c=pZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM&r=uXI5O6HThk1ULkPyaT6h2Ws3RKNKSY__GQ4DuS9UHhs&m=QyqEm0XFx0TGb5raaSJd33JQ1F-7du5_5cUpSsxtS4w&s=7XUePrNytr2m4ebhM59_oDMLJeZnHS3Ldu-os6i8Yl0&e= _______________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.