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On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, TR Young wrote:

	> Steve: How good to hear from you!!
 
	> ...maybe I'll drive out next Spring and

I know this is off the track for SocGrad ... but since
TR asked here, I'll answere here.

- Big news is I'm studying Japanese, starting with 
  Japanese 001. I was finally motivated by Ikujiro
  Nonaka. Professor Nonaka is the new Xerox Professor
  of Knowledge at the University of California, 
  Berkeley. His "The Knowledge Creating Company" is
  a refreshing approach to how we learn, and, to
  other readers of this list, how we might teach.
  Definitely fun reading for anyone with an interest
  in the Sociology of Knowledge.  Before going to 
  Berkeley, Nonaka founded the "Graduage School of
  Knowledge Science" at the Japan Advanced Institute
  of Science and Technology. An appropriate web search
  will get you lots of information.

  (Interestingly, David [Langer, the undergraduate 
  who helped TR edit his stuff for the web] is now
  Langer-san, a classmate in Japanese 1 ! Chalk
  another one up for the Small World Theory).

- Other news is that my paper on "Is the World Wide Web
  the Next Mass Media: Massification and the Internet"
  was accepted, and I'll be doing a short presentation 
  next week at WebNet '97 in Toronto. My own guess is
  that the internet will make mass media obsolete
  because it's "data mining" technologies will
  "demassify" the masses - advertisers will be able 
  to grab your IP, immediately classify you into the
  right "psychographic" category, and you will get 
  news, entertainment, and advertisement that has been
  uniquely packaged, "just for you.," You won't have
  any choice but to have it your way -- it won't be 
  produced another way.

Ciao ...

Steve