Keith Handy 1.999

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That’s it.

The script has been removed from the footer, and from the index page.

The bookmark has been removed in my browser.

No more analytics.

I feel emotional about this, but that’s because I’m an emotional person, and I’m affected by pretty much everything.

I make no guarantee that I will continue to post here.

I make no guarantee that I will start any kind of new web presence to replace it.

I have absolutely no idea what I will decide to do.

Just like starting over, part 2

Is a web presence really about letting you into my head? I’m not so sure. I think if anything, the internet is about shared spaces — two or more people getting into “the same head”, without that head necessarily belonging to any one specific person.

In shared spaces like Facebook and Twitter, I have to constantly ride the brakes. I can talk about Keith stuff, but I have to limit that for the sake of social conventions. The social conventions here are to stay fairly “in the present”, stay fairly objective rather than subjective (facts over ideas), and run every topic through some kind of “will people understand this quickly?” test before posting. Some cheating is allowed, but to run wild with it is to risk alienating people.

Sometimes, though, I wonder if maybe that wouldn’t be such a bad thing? In the least offensive way I can put this, if someone out there isn’t interested in what I want to talk about, then shouldn’t they kind of move along and leave me to find other people who are?

You know what? The above three paragraphs, by themselves, can stand alone as a post. But I didn’t hit “publish” because I was waiting for a few more paragraphs to come to me, and now it’s been a couple of weeks. A flaw in the medium, or a flaw in the me?