best of LWN

best of LWN

What if you made a "best of LWN" page? Before I subscribed, I would try to satisfy the LWN craving by browsing older editions. A lot of it was dated but sometimes I'd find one that was really cool. If there was a "best of" page with articles that were either timeless, or historically interesting, newcomers would be able to easily access interesting content, and would be more likely to get addicted to LWN.

Related to this, maybe you could publish a book, similar to Stallman's "Free Software, Free Society", with a compilation of great LWN articles. It would be cool to trace the evolution of the kernel development process for example.

Have you considered advertising on slashdot (or other places too)? I don't know if it would be worth it, but if you had a text ad with that week's article headlines, I bet you'd draw a lot of people to the site. Seeing the next week's headlines on LWN when I couldn't read them yet was a powerful motivation to subscribe.