 Hey, it's Clay Shurkey. I teach theory and practice of social media at NYU and I've written a couple of books on the subject. Here comes everybody in Cognitive Surplus. At EDUCAUSE, I'm going to be talking about the way that the internet transforms the academic conversation. It's not just that digital data changes the way we store and retrieve data. Having a medium that's global, social, ubiquitous, and cheap actually changes the way academics can propose questions, recruit collaborators, make progress, publish the results, get arguments going, and out of all of that, propose new questions. At EDUCAUSE, I'll be talking about several of these radical experiments in academic conversation about what makes them work and about how they might be made to work at your institution. See you there.