Siderea is a surprising inclusion. Her blog is insightful, I’ll agree, but it doesn’t seem to either have a particular rationality focus, nor does she seem to be connected to LessWrong socially. Is it just a case of “a bunch of people mentioned reading her” thing?
“Blindsight” seems maybe worth mentioning in the story section due to how often it’s been discussed here, IMO.
Siderea was included because she was mentioned as part of a LiveJournal LW-disapora community. Which seemed interesting enough to try sniffing out.
To my memory none of the write in blogs were interesting, but I could take another look.
If we’re going to talk about omissions, I didn’t include UNSONG. To be fair, this was because I figured Scott already had readership statistics for UNSONG and it was a relatively new story at the time I was making the survey, so it didn’t really ‘fit’.
In retrospect, I’m sure Scott has the straightforward readership statistics, but being able to do a more in depth analysis of his demographics would have been nice.
Siderea was included because she was mentioned as part of a LiveJournal LW-disapora community. Which seemed interesting enough to try sniffing out.
Right, I’m saying I don’t think that mention is an accurate description. She may be read by a bunch of LWers after some prominent recent posts, but she doesn’t seem part of the LW diaspora community in any way other than that. Not necessarily a bad thing to ask about, of course, if she is much read! It just stood out as odd.
To my memory none of the write in blogs were interesting, but I could take another look.
Just on a quick look-through, Shtetl-Optimized seems to have come up a bunch.
Since I couldn’t find anything on the main result post about the write-ins, I extracted them from the CSV dataset. Here you go: blog write-ins. I put blank lines between different people’s answers, but if that’s too distracting, see this version.
Nothing here about the write-in blogs?
Siderea is a surprising inclusion. Her blog is insightful, I’ll agree, but it doesn’t seem to either have a particular rationality focus, nor does she seem to be connected to LessWrong socially. Is it just a case of “a bunch of people mentioned reading her” thing?
“Blindsight” seems maybe worth mentioning in the story section due to how often it’s been discussed here, IMO.
Siderea was included because she was mentioned as part of a LiveJournal LW-disapora community. Which seemed interesting enough to try sniffing out.
To my memory none of the write in blogs were interesting, but I could take another look.
If we’re going to talk about omissions, I didn’t include UNSONG. To be fair, this was because I figured Scott already had readership statistics for UNSONG and it was a relatively new story at the time I was making the survey, so it didn’t really ‘fit’.
In retrospect, I’m sure Scott has the straightforward readership statistics, but being able to do a more in depth analysis of his demographics would have been nice.
Right, I’m saying I don’t think that mention is an accurate description. She may be read by a bunch of LWers after some prominent recent posts, but she doesn’t seem part of the LW diaspora community in any way other than that. Not necessarily a bad thing to ask about, of course, if she is much read! It just stood out as odd.
Just on a quick look-through, Shtetl-Optimized seems to have come up a bunch.
Since I couldn’t find anything on the main result post about the write-ins, I extracted them from the CSV dataset. Here you go: blog write-ins. I put blank lines between different people’s answers, but if that’s too distracting, see this version.