On the collaboration with Dry.io
I mentioned this in my latest Time Well Spent (a recurring feature of my newsletter), but I’ve started a collab with a firm called dry.io. On its website they say […]
CyberMonday Substack sale + book recs
Just a heads up, I’ve got a CyberMonday discount at my Substack and a bunch of book recommendations on a free post.
What the internet is today
The troll above lives in Frisco, TX. If I spent $1 I could look up their name and identity. I have 35,000 Twitter followers, and blogs and newsletters that get tens of thousands of pageviews a day. I could make this person “famous” very quickly! I (probably) won’t do this, but the lesson I want …
Subhouse clubstack, an unholy hybrid?
I recently decided to try the platform Clubhouse (you can follow me there, I’m “Razib Khan”). On Friday, February 12th, I’m going to hold a discussion on my two Substack […]
The future of writing online independently
I’m sure some of you are sick of my reflections on Substack, etc., but I’ve been “writing online” since 2002 as a hobby, and the last two months of “going […]
Substack 2021
Thank you again to everyone who has subscribed to my Substack. This is a millionth (and final!) reminder to anyone who was planning to subscribe to Substack that my 2020 […]
BP Unlurk Thread
In the post where I allude to “10 years of BP” someone mentioned old comments pre-2014 (I do have those posts in tables I need to load up). That suggests to me that some few of the readers here date to the beginning and transitioned to the blogspot site and back again. So here is …
Open Thread – 12/26/2020 – Brown Pundits
Brown Pundit emeritus Zach pointed out on Twitter that BP launched at the end of 2010. A lot has changed. At BP and the world. There is actually MySQL table data with archives back to 2010. I should resurrect those at some point. A lot has changed in the last 10 years. The biggest thing …
Sign-up for my Substack!
The price-point for paid subscription to my new newsletter is too high for most Indians (well, Americans perhaps?). So I am not asking for paid sign-ups as much as encouraging people to do a free sign-up. The reason is two-fold. First, I’m going to put out a reasonable amount of free content. You can see …
…meanwhile on Substack
I tend to assume my long-time readers are the first to find my content in other far-flung forums, but just in case not, I want to alert everyone to a […]
Unsupervised Learning Update
Just a quick update. I’ve put up a few podcasts at the substack for subscribers. I’ll be “front-loading” the podcasts before getting into a ~1 week groove. I will ungate […]
The Consolations of Free Thought
[Note: Below is the first newsletter I sent out for my new Substack, Unsupervised Learning] 2020 has sunk the final nail in the coffin of the “End of History” myth. […]
Comments!
They say blogs are dead. They say comments are dead. To my surprise, this website has surprised me. In the later years of the Sepia Mutiny weblog the number of comments started dropping off. The theory was that people were commenting more on Facebook (Twitter wasn’t huge then). Google Analytics says that more than 20,000 …
Unlurk thread
Some people still read blogs. Though not too many Zoomers apparently. Here is a thread if you want to unlurk…seems like the comments are dominated now by about a dozen individuals.
Perhaps some things to say:
– how you’ve read
–…
A better commenting system
Readers have been posting stuff about better commenting-systems. I want to keep WordPress because I don’t have time/energy to run a new CMS.
In the comments below put up your suggestions, pros and cons.
I WILL DELETE OFF TOPIC COMMENTS.
Brown Pundits Reader Survey – 2020
There are 329 respondents. That’s probably around 10% of regular readers. Most are male: Diverse ways people found this website: Most people speak English, then Hindi and Tamil (the 8%). Also, looks like about half of the Hindu readers are Brahmin: In regards to Hindu nationalism lots of opinion. Plurality is mixed opinion of Hindu …
{{{Brown Pundits}}} 2020 survey results
260 responses so far. – 95% male – 55% S. Asian and 35% white – 50% USA, 25% Asia (mostly India?). A lot of the rest is Europe – 50% completed postgraduate work – 35% no religion, 35% Hindu, 20% Christian – 35% atheist, 25% skeptical of gods, 25% conventional theist – More Right of …
Notes on podcast & blog
– A greater and greater portion of the traffic on this weblog is mobile (about 60% now). That’s why I redesigned it a while back. This mobile traffic is clearly driven by Indian traffic, which is overwhelmingly mobile. – There has been a major dropoff in positive reviews on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. Please leave …
The site is back…for now
I spent some time trying to lock-down the issue with this website. It’s back online again. Apparently, it was getting hit with too many requests and it was taking down the shared host it’s on (CPU problems). I’ve installed a bunch of caching and other features (including blocking bad crawlers). Hope we’re back in the […]