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Hi Tom,

I was lurking at ISIC this afternoon and was encouraged by your comments to expand the horizons of the discipline. Thank you.

Interested your post on google and the comment about absence of scale. You can get a sense of relative interest of IM and popular culture by replacing one of the terms with "Britney" or "Tom Cruise" and both IM & KM flatline. Use "Heath Ledger" or "Nicole Kidman" or even our Prime Ministers "Tony Blair" or "John Howard" and incidence of the IM and KM terms are comparable.

So it may be encouraging to know that IM and KM are remain as popular as B-list movie stars!

Regards,

Michael - -