Many years ago, when web was just starting, I was the ASA first and only ICT advisor. As Piotr said, ASA was very late to the game, and my unwritten mission (given to me by the then-ASA president) was to push 'em forward in the face of incomprehension. It took a while to get ASA to want a website. And by the time they went for it, asa.org was taken. Another unpublished fight was that a high ASA official wanted every section's website to look identical. Kinda the opposite of Web 2.0 (which hadn't been named then.) The compromise we reached was to have the standard website templates, but then to enable sections to link their own creations to the standard ones, as a click-thru. An ambition I had then which never got anywhere -- but might be worth trying again if someone Else has the energy -- was to transform ASR & other ASA journals into carrying mostly short readable articles, with the longer heavier versions available on the web. These are stories from the ancient 90s. 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 _______________________________________________________________________