The end of an experiment

You don't exist.

Well, I guess you do, the individual you. Tautologically (and forgoing solipsism) you must.

But the collective you - the "audience" - you're essentially not there.

There's a few reasons for this, chief among them my unwillingness to promote my site in any way. I'm not talking about buying ads or anything silly, simply about "networking" - harassing people I know and harassing them to harass others and tweeting and Facebooking and doing whatever else it takes to grab eyeballs.

Also, it's relatively clear from perusing my entries that, to put it one way, "my heart isn't in it." I find these topics interesting of course, and I'd like to think that my writing is actually not bad and the links and sources are interesting too. But I'm barely up for updating weekly, much less the daily or more that a truly successful site requires.

So, I'm going to stop. There's the off chance I'll post again if and when I actually post more actual open source projects. But I obviously don't have time to do that constantly, and even in my free time I'm finding other priorities more important. Maybe those too will eventually be things I choose to share with the world, but likely through another venue (or at least a different site).

I was never writing with the intention of building an audience anyway, but it does seem rather silly to continue without one. I'm not going to take anything down, the blog entries will stand if nothing else for my reference, as I truly find the links and such interesting. But now when I find new links rather than write short contrived essays I can just copy the URL in my notes.

Thanks for not reading, and enjoy the silence.