Something rather different from the usual posts. This website is a new idea from Dr Richard Price. I've copied his entire email below. I hope that it succeeds:
I'm a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where I recently finished my Ph.D on the philosophy of perception.
I've just launched a website, www.academia.edu, which does two things:
- It displays academics around the world in a 'tree diagram' format, according to which university/department they are affiliated with.
- It enables academics to keep track of the latest developments in their field - the latest people, papers, and talks.
My hope is that the site will list every academic in the world -- Faculty members, Post-Docs, and Graduate Students.
The site is getting some traction. Some of the professors on the site include:
- Richard Dawkins - http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins
- Stephen Hawking - http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking
- Paul Krugman - http://princeton.academia.edu/PaulKrugman
- Noam Chomsky - http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky
I'm trying to spread the word about www.academia.edu. If you have a minute, please visit the site, and add yourself to your department on the tree. If your department/university is not there, you can add it/them by clicking on the arrows coming out of the department/university boxes.
And do spread the word to your friends and colleagues if you can.
Many thanks,
Richard
Dr. Richard Price,
Prize Fellow,
All Souls College,
Oxford,
OX1 4AL
richard.price@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
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