Why Didn't I Call The Site Science 2.0?
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 16:31
in Mathematics & Economics
People who have been around a long time know the somewhat convoluted history of Science 2.0 in general and Scientific Blogging in specific but the top question I get after people say, "Oh, you're that guy!" is "Why did you call it Scientific Blogging?" Why not Science 2.0? Well, there's a practical reason and a philosophical one. The practical reason is that the way domain names work it isn't really possible. In order to make Science2.0.com I would have to make Science2 a subdomain of 0.com and that has been in existence since 1985. Yes, 1985, well before Tim Berners-Lee blessed us with an elegant way to make a World Wide Web. VeriSign owns it and they are unlikely to give it to me. read more