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As your ethnographer... I am wondering why the list went so suddenly silent... is it just because it is end-of-term for many? Is it post-conference burnout? Or-- is it a reluctance to post because I asked for more ethnographic information? I notice that other messages asking for info are going unanswered right now, which is unusual, considering the high amount of activity in the past 6 months or so! I have gotten no responses about "what is Inkshed-- what does the conference/listserv do for you-- what is your role in Inkshed" since I asked on the list. I have gotten responses from 3 or 4 NEW conference-presenters, however. That is interesting, but I don't know what it means that they responded and others didn't. Did the "regulars" think that my data collection ended at the conference, perhaps, or that they'd done the most that could be expected by even letting me "ethno-graph" them? Did the new presenters just have more need to express their reactions to someone? I ask, as my voice echoes across the canyon of listserv space and time ... Oh well. It's only a class project, not a dissertation or a book. I don't have the time or means to do a full-scale ethnography, so my data will be limited, and I will probably end up making some false conclusions about Inkshed that will really annoy core Inkshedders or set sparks flying between inkshedders. I am thinking now that I might never let it be seen by anyone besides my professor, because I don't know if I want to risk the chaos that would ensue upon letting the Inkshed group view my objectification of who they are. Boy, am I learning a lot about ethnography!! Tania