scifoo mailing list madness

The folks at O'Reilly have started up a mailing list for scifoo alumni and seeded the conversation with the question "Who's doing the coolest, most interesting work in emerging technology?"

The desire to reproduce the conversation here for you is powerful but I feel constrained against simply copying and pasting the messages as its still a private mailing list (though I doubt that any of the people posting would care).

Hopefully when I'm finished writing my dissertation I'll be able to dive into some of the threads in there a little bit and share them with you (at least as wordles).