At the moment this blog still doesn’t really exist.

I mean, it never really stopped existing. I didn’t delete it. I moved it to a new subdomain, yes that’s true.  I installed a fairly aggressive robots file alongside these files thus keeping the search engines out, true again. And I put a password lock on that subdomain so that only I could view its contents, yes that’s also true.  But during that time I poked in here and there, never really writing as much as I might have supposed to do, but keeping the software updated and even once making a big ol’ stinking effort to export the contents of the blog to some kind of dead-tree-based document (maybe I should write a plugin…)

But given all my effort at hiding this thing for the last year, and the complete lack of effort I’ve made at informing my once-loyal readership that those restictions have been removed, it fairly safe to say that — at this moment at least — this blog doesn’t exist.

Which is very weird, actually.  Weird because in the last couple years I’ve become fairly solidly versed driving traffic.  Those other blogging efforts I mentioned in my last post? Each of those blogs is backed by so much interconnected layers of social technology it would have made my head spin ten years back when I started this blog. No, really: spin. Every time a post launches over there, scripts go to work; short urls are generated by my own scripts; a cascade of updates trickle through a half dozen social media sites couple with bits of teaser text enticing targeted readers to click in for a look, a read, and maybe even a comment.

But not here.  Which is weird, because I used to pine for readers. Still apparently do on those other sites, it could be argued. But here (admittedly just one short day and a stack of introspective meta-like posts later) it is all still hidden.

It doesn’t yet exist.

No one knows this domain and it hasn’t been indexed. I’m not yet — and haven’t quite decided if I am ever going to be — really ready to broadcast these posts. I figure, in a week or so, when the groove is back, when I’m sure this isn’t just a momentary weakness brought on by my frustrations at national politcs or a side effect of this social fuck-you attitude I’ve been feeling lately, when there is a good buffer of posts between then and this, perhaps I’ll unleash the bots upon here, tell a select few folks, drop an easter egg or two, or — depending — tweet my existence.

But for now? I kinda like have just one reader: me.