Both Sci.Nanotech and Alt.Sci.Nanotech are DEAD

[hannahf...@gmail.com]

Where did everyone go? Where's a good place to discuss Nanotechnology?

[John Kennard]

On Mar 14, 2:54 pm, hannahfontan...@gmail.com wrote:

> Where did everyone go? Where's a good place to discuss Nanotechnology?

Assuming you're still alive yourself . . . :

I personally know of and have popped some stuff in on www.nanopaprika.eu
and the "Bionanotechnies" group at linkedin.com (my own blog on a
particular variety of bionanotechnology, mechanomeric selection, is at
mechanomers.blogspot.com).

http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?lnk=srgmb&q=nanotechnology

shows 179 groups on GG alone (but of course most of those are barely-
active or not legit).

So I guess people are off gabbing on web-forums.

But I too am surprised at sn and asn being dead, or near-dead,
especially asn (moderation is always a turn-off).

I love Usenet (I post a lot under another nym <shifty look>), and
still consider and tout it as the biggest, oldest and most powerful
net-forum of all (notice the shifty optimization), and it's a shame
that such a cutting-edge technology isn't represented here.

[John Kennard]

Incidentally, I popped a serious contribution to bionanotechnology
into sci.nanotech a month ago, "Enzymes and Molecular Machines Can Be
Selected from Random Copolymers", which post can of course be read on
the web at

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.nanotech/browse_thread/thread/cb357def91a77efe#

but Google Groups wouldn't then and wouldn't yesterday allow me to pop
it into here.

Might it be a GG length-limit, some kinda spam-filtering, with GG
letting moderated groups do their own? weird anyway.

The report was of course parked first on my own blog dedicated to the
subject, a variety of bionanotechnology I call "mechanomeric
selection", at

http://mechanomers.blogspot.com/2012/03/enzymes-and-molecular-machines-can-be.html

[hannahf...@gmail.com]

I'm thinking maybe a Facebook or Google+ group would be the best pace to start. Anyone interested?