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Authors

Who wrote what, and how the archive knows. Most of this collection was published under a single site account, so for the named columns the writer is supplied by the archive rather than read off the page — and every card that carries a supplied name says so, and says from what.

Attributed by the archive

The publication printed its site account on these posts. The writer is named here on the editor’s ruling, from the evidence each card states. The as-published byline is not overwritten: every record page still shows what the page said, with the supplied name beside it.

John Boston140 posts · 2009–2012Supplied by the archive — named as a column in the paper's own navigation, as published (137); ruled by the archive's editor from the column title (3)
Eve Bushman69 posts · 2008–2013Supplied by the archive — named as a column in the paper's own navigation, as published (65); the column heading is the writer's name, as published (4)
Chris Sharp51 posts · 2006–2013Supplied by the archive — named as a column in the paper's own navigation, as published (48); the column heading is the writer's name, as published (3)
Roger Gitlin19 posts · 2010–2012Supplied by the archive — the column heading is the writer's name, as published (19)
Tim Myers9 posts · 2007–2008Supplied by the archive — the column heading is the writer's name, as published (9)
Simon Weston6 posts · 2008–2010Supplied by the archive — the column heading is the writer's name, as published (6)
Jack Murphy3 posts · 2006–2008Supplied by the archive — the column heading is the writer's name, as published (3)
Mike Cruz2 posts · 2006Supplied by the archive — the column heading is the writer's name, as published (2)

As published

The byline the page carried, standing on its own. Names here are shown exactly as the publication printed them and are not resolved to anyone.

Dave Bossert161 posts · 2005–2013

What these cards do not account for

The cards above account for 460 of this collection’s 3,224 records.

2,761 records carry the site account “admin” and no named column. That is a WordPress account, not a person, and it gets no card and no page — there is nobody for a page to be about. Those records are in the index and the search and are counted here rather than left as a gap between two numbers.

3 records carry no byline at all. The archive holds no evidence it would stand behind for supplying one.

Some columns are titles rather than people — a republication feature, a recurring heading — and the archive does not know who wrote them. It says so on the record page rather than supplying a name.

Top Commentariat

The comment threads are part of what this collection holds. The ten most frequent voices, shown as published:

1,282 comments in total, from 588 distinct handles as published. Handles are not merged: two spellings of a name are counted separately, because deciding they are one person is an inference this archive has not been given.

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