[Editors] Fwd: Are you in the MIT Aeronautics/Astronautics Department?

[William Litant]

Dear all:

Email from Richard Price. Again, my thought is that the guy is just a poor communicator.

Best,
Bill

Bill

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Richard Price <richard at academia.edu>
> Date: March 30, 2010 7:50:38 PM EDT
> To: "William T. G. Litant" <wlitant at mit.edu>
> Subject: RE: Are you in the MIT Aeronautics/Astronautics Department?
> 
> Dear Mr Litant,
> 
> Many thanks for your email, and apologies for the delay in replying. I
> appreciate your comments. 
> 
> I did send the email below, and academia.edu is a bona fide project. I
> created it to make it easier for academics to find who else is working in
> their research area, and to keep up with what people in their area are
> working on. When doing my Ph.D at Oxford, I had the need for a site like
> this, so I went ahead and created it. The site already has some avid users.
> There are about 40,000 graduate students on the site, 5,000 post-docs, and
> 45,000 professors. I often get emails from users saying that they discovered
> people in their research field on Academia.edu that they would never have
> known about before. Users also tend to like the fact that the site has an
> easy way of creating an academic webpage, and listing their papers. In
> total, the site has about 110,000 users, and about 10,000 new users join
> each month. We are finding that registered users re-visit Academia.edu twice
> as often as they re-visit other sites such as LinkedIn. 
> 
> I hope this clarifies the nature of the site, and its aims. Please let me
> know if you have any other questions and I will respond to them. 
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Richard Price
> 
> Post-doc, Philosophy department, Oxford University
> http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice