1) It is very often the right response to a question to break it into sub-questions. Here, I think the opposite is true. "How do we want our publicity?" or the like, to keep focus on our steering from the present to one possible future*, perhaps with "doing nothing actively" being the default.
2) The gap between "main" and "discussion" seems large. Perhaps the discussion section could have subsections, or a new "this post is a public rough draft and work in progress" section could be created.
*Don't even go there.
Recently reporters from two major national magazines contacted me in preparation for doing stories on Bitcoin. This reminded me that Wired magazine did a cover story on the Cypherpunks in its second issue. I think the LessWrong community is already larger and more active than Cypherpunks were back then, and potentially more influential, but there hasn't been much publicity on us. I'm tempted to suggest doing a story on LessWrong to one of the reporters. Is this a good idea, or bad?
More generally, do we want more publicity, and if so what's the best way to go about getting it?
ETA: Would it be bad etiquette to reveal the names of these magazines at this point, or even to say as much as I've said?