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The ASME International Applied Mechanics Division has about 5000 members. The number is too large for us to know each other individually, but too small for CNN to cover us in the Situation Room.

Then came the Internet. We have since been in touch through emails, and looked up each other on the Web. Many web pages created in 1990s, however, are static. For such a web page, the bottleneck is often the webmaster. He or she gets a request each time anyone wants to post anything. It is more like a broadcast than a web.

In recent years, there have been waves of new internet phenomena, such as Wikipedia, Real Simple Syndicates (RSS), open-source movement, and web logs (blogs). They are collectively known as Web 2.0.

Zhigang is really a master of good ideas. He learned the new technology from his son months ago, and then so many good ideas have been popping up in the mechanics community. Google group was the first trial, then google blog, wikepedia, etc. Now even fancier, iMech. I dreamed before, if I had money, I would buy a series of products by Apple. Now and in the future, I wish I can obtain iMech for free. I wish it has the quality as other products of i*** by Apple, but not as expensive as those. Good news is that the iMech is made by Zhigang, not Apple.

Zhigang Suo, Joost Vlassak, and Sigurd Wagner