Re: [xmca] Fwd: Academia.edu launches - gigantic tree of academics

[Mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Sure, start it off and show us the way, David.
mike

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:20 PM, David Preiss <davidpreiss@uc.cl> wrote:

> Colleagues,
> This is fun! Should we create a MCA branch in this tree? There is cultural
> psychology but didn't see any known names.
> David
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>  From: Richard Price <richard.price@academia.edu>
>> Date: April 1, 2009 2:29:41 PM GMT-04:00
>> To: davidpreiss@uc.cl
>> Subject: Academia.edu launches - gigantic tree of academics
>>
>> Dear Professor David Preiss,
>>
>> I am a post-doc in philosophy at Oxford. I recently created Academia.edu,
>> which is a gigantic tree diagram of every academic in the world.
>> Academia.edu's goal is to be like Facebook or LinkedIn for academics.
>>
>> Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Noam Chomsky, Paul Krugman and Steven
>> Pinker have all added their names to Academia.edu's tree recently, and so
>> have 70% of the Nobel Prize winners for 2008. Over 800,000 academics have
>> started to use Academia.edu in the last 6 months.
>>
>> It would be wonderful if you could support Academia.edu, by adding your
>> name to the Academia.edu tree. To add your name, just follow the link below:
>>
>> http://www.academia.edu/Add-yourself
>>
>>
>> Richard
>>
>> Dr. Richard Price
>> http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice
>>
>>
>> About Academia.edu
>> ---------------------------
>>
>> Academia.edu was founded by Richard Price and a team of people from
>> Stanford and Cambridge University. The aim is for the site to list every
>> academic in the world, together with their university and department
>> affiliation.
>>
>> To contact us, please email hello@academia.edu, or write to us at: 2140
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>>
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>>
>>
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