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Subjects
On record since
Oct 2026
Posts we hold
26
First published
12 Jul 2023
Last published
4 Oct 2026
Last cited
7 Oct 2026
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Blogs linking here · all time

17+4 new in the last 30 days

different blogs have linked to edconway.substack.com, 18 times in all. The page they cite most is Hang on, are there ANY lost minerals?, linked by 5 blogs.

Citations by period

in the last 7 days
2
in the last 30 days
4
in the last 90 days
7
first linked here in the last 30 days
4
in the directory (last 90 days)
No. 1,699
links from other blogs in the last 90 days
8
Posts per week6 Oct 2025 to 28 Sept 2026
Posts per week, 6 Oct 2025 to 28 Sept 2026: 52 weeks, peak 2 a week, latest week 1

1 last week · peak 2

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Blogs linking here per week6 Oct 2025 to 28 Sept 2026
Blogs linking here per week, 6 Oct 2025 to 28 Sept 2026: 52 weeks, peak 2 a week, latest week 1

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Most cited pages

Pages on edconway.substack.com, ranked by how many different blogs link to them.

Most cited pages on edconway.substack.com, page 1
#PageBlogs
1Hang on, are there ANY lost minerals?/p/hang-on-are-there-any-lost-minerals (opens in a new tab)5 blogs
2The 30,000-mile fish finger/p/the-30000-mile-fish-finger (opens in a new tab)3 blogs
3The Apple-Banana Paradox/p/the-apple-banana-paradox (opens in a new tab)2 blogs
4The Diesel Weapon/p/the-diesel-weapon (opens in a new tab)2 blogs
5Does it really matter if we can't produce "virgin steel" anymore?/p/does-it-really-matter-if-we-cant (opens in a new tab)1 blog
6Jan Czochralski: the forgotten hero of the silicon age/p/jan-czochralski-the-forgotten-hero (opens in a new tab)1 blog
7No, Kerosene did NOT save the Sperm Whale/p/no-kerosene-did-not-save-the-sperm (opens in a new tab)1 blog
8The Glass Famine/p/the-glass-famine (opens in a new tab)1 blog
9The Missing Pipe/p/the-missing-pipe (opens in a new tab)1 blog
10What can we learn from the latest Rare Earths crisis?/p/the-rare-earths-crisis-and-what-it (opens in a new tab)1 blog

Blogs citing it

Ranked by how many of their posts link here.

Blogs citing edconway.substack.com, page 1
#BlogPostsLinks
1Speedysnailspeedysnail.com12
2agro.biodiver.se11
3Infinite Regressblog.miljko.org11
4compoundchem.com11
5dynamicecology.wordpress.com11
6economicshelp.org11
7Experimental Historyexperimental-history.com11
8forethought.org11
9implicit.computer11
10jdilla.xyz11

Posts counts the posts that link here; links counts every link. A blog counts once as a citing blog either way. Atom feed of new citing blogs

Words blogs link it with

The words citing blogs put inside the link, ranked by how many different blogs used them.

The most used link texts for edconway.substack.com
WordsBlogsLinks
material world22
[w]hile we like to tell ourselves humankind has exhausted this or that resource, we are much better at talking about it than actually, well, exhausting said resource.11
britain chose the wrong heating system a century ago.11
does it really matter if we can’t produce “virgin steel” anymore?11
early electrical cables and machinery11

The top 5. The owner of edconway.substack.com sees every phrase after claiming the blog.

Similar blogs

Blogs that link to the same sites as edconway.substack.com, weighted toward rarely cited sites, blended with blogs whose recent posts are about the same things. Blogs on both lists come first.

Blogs similar to edconway.substack.com
Blog Sites linked in common Why similar
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Publishing habit

Counted from the 26 posts we hold with a date, in UTC.

Posts in the last 12 months
19
Usual gap between posts
9 days
Most posts on
Monday (27%)
Last post
4 Oct 2026
Comebacks after 6 months or more of silence
1 (latest Jun 2024)
Month
Posts
Nov 2025
0
Dec 2025
0
Jan 2026
1
Feb 2026
0
Mar 2026
1
Apr 2026
1
May 2026
0
Jun 2026
4
Jul 2026
3
Aug 2026
5
Sept 2026
2
Oct 2026
1
Weekday
Posts, all time
Monday
7
Tuesday
4
Wednesday
3
Thursday
2
Friday
6
Saturday
0
Sunday
4

Sites edconway.substack.com cites

35 sites linked from its posts; the ones linked from the most posts come first.

Sites that edconway.substack.com links to
SitePosts linking
substackcdn.com21
lnk.to12
en.wikipedia.org5
thetimes.com4
news.sky.com4
linktr.ee3
asml.com2
gov.uk2
waterstones.com2
amazon.co.uk1

Recent posts

All 26 posts, by year
The most recent posts on edconway.substack.com
PostOriginal
The Diesel Weapon4 Oct 2026Read at edconway.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
This isn’t just about Jaguar Land Rover (or VW)8 Sept 2026Read at edconway.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
The little holes in your bread are telling you something3 Sept 2026Read at edconway.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
Are We Approaching “Peak Ship”?30 Aug 2026Read at edconway.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
The 30,000-mile fish finger27 Aug 2026Read at edconway.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
The North Sea is not just about the North Sea18 Aug 2026Read at edconway.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
The Radio, the Submarine and the Tariffs16 Aug 2026Read at edconway.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
At least one very good reason to pre-order Trade World3 Aug 2026Read at edconway.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
What Andy Burnham's £80 T-shirt really tells us29 Jul 2026Read at edconway.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
The Most Important Trainer You've Never Heard Of27 Jul 2026Read at edconway.substack.com (opens in a new tab)

26 posts on record from edconway.substack.com, cited by 17 other distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 11 October 2026).