Some of the people I’ve started to know on Facebook are Hans Bernhard and Lizvlx, otherwise known as Ubermorgen. We’ve talked about all kinds of things, from our kids, to the joys of Ikea, to what motivates our work. And we spend a lot of time sending each other drinks and throwing sheep and all the silly Facebook stuff.
So now I’m trying to arrange for them to come and speak at our school. Of course one reason is that their work is cool–I loved “Vote Auction,” for example, and I think it would be great to feature such amazing reality hackers here. But also I just like them and while Facebook is fun and all, and skype is pretty good (assuming Hans gets his audio working 😉 ) still none of it beats meeting in person. So hopefully we will work something out for early spring.