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Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

craphound.com · a site they built themselves · publishing since 1992

Read them at craphound.com → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

Cory Doctorow's craphound.com publishes art, essays and novels about fantasy & SF and technology at craphound.com, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Publishing since 1992, by their own archive. Vouched for by 10 other writers in the index.

3,724 pages in their archive34 years at it24 dated posts since 200010 writers vouch

Posts per month, from their own dated linksSeptember 2005 to August 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20052005-06: 120082008-06: 12008-07: 120112011-11: 120142014-12: 120152015-01: 12015-03: 120202020-03: 120252025-02: 22025-03: 220262026-05: 32026-06: 32026-07: 32026-08: 1
fewermorepeak: 3 in July 2026

Counted from links on their own pages whose paths carry a year and a month. That reaches only the pages the crawl has seen, so early years may be undercounted.

Posts per year

12005220081201112014220151202042025102026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 34

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 34, from their own archive. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured, of 3,724 the sitemap lists1 section found
Front page
154 KB, 20 scripts, 41 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 20 entries, the recent end only
Trackers
none
Links out
2 other writers in the index, 17 other sites, 0 platforms
Found
2026-08-22, by following another writer's link

The lag

1992writing since2026the almanac

Writing since 1992. The big engines rank it about 48,546 among all domains. The almanac found it in August 2026, by following another writer's link.

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

download350audiobook189donate178news1238centaur14whistleblower5postpolitical3podcast546review1568zuckerberg18enshittification12free1510remix73copy850

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Who vouches8 writers in the index

8 writers in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

Their neighbourhood

Craphound ShopPluralisticRussell Coker's Docity of tonguesPlanetChristopher McKittCompositeOblomovkaPluralisticCraphound Shop17 sites outside the indexCory Doctorow's craphoun
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Pluralistic, Craphound Shop.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · publishing since 1992 · no optimization at all · vouched by the literary end

How the machine sees this site

  • Ranked about 48,546 in the top million domains.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • No description written for search engines and no schema. Nothing on the page was built to be found.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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