Sympoze turned one year this month. It is a little over a year old, and I think it’s been a good year.
How Far Sympoze Has Come
Just to give you an idea of how far it’s come. In the last week, I’ve added 4 new requests for accounts. We now have 115 philosophers signed up with accounts. In the last month Sympoze had over 50,000 page views!
As a reference point, Leiter Reports is probably the most read philosophy blog by professional philosophers. His site averages around 200,000 page views this time of year. So the most read philosophy blog probably only has 4x the page views as Sympoze. I think those are very good numbers, and it gives me very good reason to think that philosophers are really using the site. I anticipate that things are just going to keep growing.
Top Stories in 365 days
I finally get to make good use of the link that shows you the top posts for 365 days! Here they are!
- PhilPapers: Online Research in Philosophy
- Sympoze External Vote Button
- Logic for Philosophers
- Excursus: Philosophy Journal Feeds
- Fetishes and Russell’s Paradox
- Philosopher’s Annual 2007 Winners
- Top 20 Faculties
- Preview of Overall Survey Results for New PGR
- Philosophy is 12th Best Job
- Philosophers on Twitter
- Sharing BibTeX with Mark Kalderon
- Thom Brooks Publishing Advice
Those are all of the submitted links that received 7 or more up votes from Sympoze users. There were a ton that received 6, so I made the cutoff 7. You can browse all of the top links for the last 365 days here.
Philosophers: Get Your Sympoze Account
If you’re a philosopher, and you don’t have a Sympoze account. All you need to do is email me, and I’ll set it up for you.
Why Do I Need An Account?
The only reason I have accounts is so that we can restrict the voting to professional philosophers. Remember that the primary purpose of Sympoze is to be a place for professional philosophers to quickly find links to content online that other professional philosophers like. To ensure that the votes reflect the opinions of professional philosophers, you
must have an account to vote. And you must, at least, be pursuing a graduate degree in philosophy to get an account.
Happy birthday, Symoze! BTW, I really like the whole idea of Sympoze. I think it could really take off if people would jump on board and use it. I need to use it more myself, but it seems there are so many who don’t have accounts at all. My suspicion is that most philosophers don’t use Digg or anything like it, so they aren’t sure about getting into Sympoze. But I imagine many of them would find it useful if they got into it.
I think you’re right. Most philosophers probably don’t know much about Digg, and most philosophers probably (therefore) don’t realize how completely awesome this site would be if they were all actively using it.
I’m optimistic that it will get there eventually.