Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Buzzworthy: Share that book
If you're interested in social networks and communities formed using the Internet, check out Rebekah Denn's story today about local involvement in BookCrossing, "a literary Web version of a message in a bottle."
More than 3,000 people from Anacortes to Yelm are now surreptitiously dropping off books covered with sticky notes announcing "I'M FREE!" and bookplates listing the volume's ID number for tracking online. Worldwide, the Bookcrossing site now boasts more than a half-million books and 150,000 users.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Business calendar Monday September 7, 2003
A "SOCIAL NETWORKS AND BUSINESS" dinner panel will be Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Xerox, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto. Presented by the Institute for Social Networks Analysis of the Economy. Speaker: Mark Granovetter, a corporate scientific advisor, researcher and writer. Cost: members $45, nonmembers $55. Registration: ISNAE: Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy (ISNAE: is-nay)
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