Re: BioTheory launch

[Tim Gwinn <***>]

For those who haven't seen it, back in March Judith provided a document of
some of her father's notes regarding the BioTheory idea. See the PDF
attachment to:
http://www.panmere.com/rosen/mhout/msg00967.html


As for the title, I see now your reasoning behind it being so long, Judith.
An alternative to supplying all those keywords in the actual title for
search purposes would be to supply them in META tags in the HTML of the
webpage where the journal resides.

But having the long description does also makes it plain what the journal is
about. So, if its a bit wordy, that's ok.

Regards,
Tim



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ROSEN Forum [mailto:*** Behalf Of Judith
> Rosen
> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 6:05 PM
> To: ***
> Subject: Re: BioTheory launch
>
>
> The problem I have with limiting the name of the new journal to biological
> stuff is that it ignores what my father achieved in terms of the
> foundations
> of science as a whole. It also limits who would consider
> publishing in it or
> reading it. One of the biggest problems with scientific advances like my
> father's is the lack of cross-pollination between disciplines.
> Doctors read
> "medical" journals, physicists read physics journals, biologists read
> biology journals, and it gets even further specialized such that, for
> example, cardiologists read cardiology journals.
>
> My thoughts were that if it is called a "general" science publication and
> specifically mentions a new paradigm, I think a vast cross-section of
> disciplines might take a look at it, if they happen to stumble across it,
> just out of curiosity. They might even be more likely to read it if the
> title pisses them off a little.
>
> The reason the name had to get longer has to do with something peculiar to
> the internet: Keywords. This is going to be, until whenever, an electronic
> internet-based science journal. So, with the "BioTheory" part a given just
> because it was my father's name for it... I asked myself what other words
> should be part of the title such that a search on certain keywords would
> bring it up in the search.results. The answers to that set of questions
> combined with my concerns mentioned in the previous paragraph all added up
> to the current long name:
>
> BioTheory:
> A Journal of General Science
> Based On the Rosennean Complexity Paradigm
>
> Frankly, if it were up to me (meaning if my father hadn't come up with a
> name for it), and copyright issues weren't in the way, I'd want
> to name it,
> simply: "SCIENCE". That one really says it all, as far as I'm
> concerned. But
> that name is taken already.
>
> Judith