Jenny and I just finished our first experimental online history chat–I think it was reasonably successful, and could be used for certain kinds of discussion. Largely historians (not historians of science) participated–it seemed to be agreed that some of the deeper theory-based concerns were not very high on everyone’s minds, but that there was plenty of need for new kinds of historiography that haven’t yet cohered. Maybe we’re in a period of theory hangover? Jenny will sum up in more detail soon.