Another strange thing is that the degree isn't called "Ph.D." at Oxford!
Andrew Buxton
Brighton
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Sent: 01 October 2008 23:24
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Subject: Re: Academia.edu: 'tree' of academics launches
Peter M. Adams writes
> On 30 Sep, Richard Price <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > 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:
>
> On the principle of "keep it simple", couldn't the site be made to work
> without Flash and Java Script?
Writing such a site is a not a trivial undertaking. It's not the
sort of thing you would throw together, in your spare time,
while writing a PhD. It appears that the domain is owned by a
US based company. A whois query shows
Domain Name: ACADEMIA.EDU
Registrant:
Academia
942 Windemere Dr. NW
Salem, OR 97304
UNITED STATES
Thus this looks like a commercial, rather than academic endeavor.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
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