Web Science

Techdirt reported the other day about The Guardian taking Tim Berners-Lee's quotes from an interview out of context to make something sound more interesting for its readers. I found a NYTimes article that was actually more believable. That one talked also about a field of study that interests me and I had no idea it existed or was emerging. From the article:

Web science is related to another emerging interdisciplinary field called services science. This is the study of how to use computing, collaborative networks and knowledge in disciplines ranging from economics to anthropology to lift productivity and develop new products in the services sector, which represents about three-fourths of the United States economy. Services science research is being supported by technology companies like I.B.M., Accenture and Hewlett-Packard, and by the National Science Foundation.

I would like to know more about this "services science." It sounds a bit like what I already do.

Oh, and if you take the words from the inventor of the World Wide Web, twist them, and publish it on your website, expect to hear from him on that same medium.