{"id":1316,"date":"2007-04-08T07:58:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T07:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/04\/08\/where-the-nerds-are\/"},"modified":"2007-04-08T07:58:41","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T07:58:41","slug":"where-the-nerds-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/04\/08\/where-the-nerds-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Nerds Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those few readers who are really fascinated by the workings of SF fandom, Kevin Standlee has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/kevin-standlee.livejournal.com\/299760.html\">map of the Worldcon membership<\/a> by country, and by state for the US and prefecture for Japan.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting not just for the distribution of the actual members, but for the gaps. Africa appears only in a couple of small insets, thanks to a few members in Nigeria, South  Africa, and Israel, while only a tiny slice of Aouth America is shown, thanks to a handful of members in Chile. There are no members from anywhere in the former Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know that you can read any Deep Meaning into any of this, but it&#8217;s sort of interesting just to look at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those few readers who are really fascinated by the workings of SF fandom, Kevin Standlee has posted a map of the Worldcon membership by country, and by state for the US and prefecture for Japan. It&#8217;s interesting not just for the distribution of the actual members, but for the gaps. Africa appears only in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/04\/08\/where-the-nerds-are\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where the Nerds Are<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}