Come to the NLab Social Networks Conference 19-20 June 2008 at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK http://www.nlabnetworks.com Hope to see you there! Sue Thomas is Professor of New Media in the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University and an Associate Fellow of DMU's Institute of Creative Technologies. Her most recent book is the non-fiction travelogue of cyberspace Hello World: travels in virtuality (2004). She has published extensively in both print and online, and has initiated numerous online writing projects including The Noon Quilt, now an iconic image of the early days of the web. She founded the trAce Online Writing Centre in 1995 where she was Artistic Director until going to De Montfort in January 2005. She is Programme Leader of the online MA in Creative Writing and New Media, which she teaches with Kate Pullinger, and Leader of the Production and Research in Transliteracy Group. Her research interests include transliteracy, participatory media, creative writing and the creative industries. She is currently writing The Wild Surmise, a study of nature and cyberspace.