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At this fabulous Digital Youth East Asia conference, some new friends logged onto the HASTAC site and were convinced there was no way they could join. Ouch! We're a virtual network of networks. Joining is simply registering to the site, letting others know what you are doing and thinking (news and blog posts), and coming to HASTAC events or offering them yourself. But in letting people know about plans for the future, we inadvertently eliminated the only place where one could find that information. Here it is, an FAQ for How to Join and Participate.

If you go to www.sparkip.com, you will find the best searchable database for scientific technologies anywhere. This is SparkIP, an online intellectual property network for the scientific community that was co-developed by historian of science Tim Lenoir and engineer Rob Clark of Duke and Kristina Johnson (formerly dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke and now Provost at Johns Hopkins).