Need I say: No web, no listservs, and, of course, no Google, Wikipedia, Twitter or Facebook. A few other interesting stats from then: the Dow was, get ready, 776 in August of that year, down 30% from its high of 1011 five years earlier. In 1982, Doubleday published Networking: The First Report and Directory , Jeff's and my first book. The story of how that book came to market someday will, or rather, should appear in the annals of publishing -- first publisher ( Methuen , a British publisher aiming to break into the US market) shelved its whole list just after we'd submitted manuscript; Doubleday picked it up, offering more than twice the original advance (great agent at time, Ron Bernstein); we got the contract to do the electronic typsetting, making it the first commercial book to be electronically typeset

can tell you the one about the KMCI debacle which helped get ActKM started, the one about how the listserver system went haywire and we introduced moderation and the one about the YahooGroups being deleted . Your distinction also speaks to Wengers notion of participation/identity "trajectories" -presumably the "Im in a network" member who doesnt subscribe to the stories may always be that way, or may be inculturated and drawn in to the communitys identity over time? Posted by: Patrick Lambe at August 2, 2006 2:14 PM I agree that there are many other indicators of whether a person

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