{"id":9159,"date":"2005-09-21T18:01:52","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T23:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2005\/09\/21\/lurker-day\/"},"modified":"2005-09-21T18:01:52","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T23:01:52","slug":"lurker-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/21\/lurker-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Lurker Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Lurker Day, as explained by Chris at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faultline.org\/place\/pinolecreek\/archives\/002604.html\">Creek Running North<\/a>, Lauren at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministe.us\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/21\/happy-delurker-day\/\">Feministe<\/a>, and PZ at <a href=\"http:\/\/pharyngula.org\/index\/weblog\/why_didnt_anyone_tell_me_its_lurker_day\/\">Pharyngula<\/a>.  (Three of the coolest blogs on all the internets, I should add.)  That is, lazy bloggers avoid posting original content by asking their readers who never (or rarely) comment to drop by and leave a note saying who they are and what they like about the blog.  (Other blogs also ask for something called &#8220;constructive criticism,&#8221; or perhaps even for suggestions for improvement; we here at CV see no need for such things.  But if you are so moved, knock yourselves out.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m especially curious as to two demographic questions:  how many readers are professionally science-related in some way vs. how many are from the so-called &#8220;real world,&#8221; and among the former, how many are students vs. embittered elders.  No pressure, obviously; consider this just a chance to pipe up and say hi if you haven&#8217;t yet had the chance to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Lurker Day, as explained by Chris at Creek Running North, Lauren at Feministe, and PZ at Pharyngula. (Three of the coolest blogs on all the internets, I should add.) That is, lazy bloggers avoid posting original content by asking their readers who never (or rarely) comment to drop by and leave a note [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}