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Silent Owls (Signing off… sort of)
Posted by Eric F. Langborgh on 22 Oct 2007 at 05:42 pm
Go ahead and nix what I said here. I’m jumping back out of the saddle — and this time, basically for good.
Any regular visitor to the Borg Blog is probably already aware of the fact that I terminated the “Borg Blog News Service” last week. Long story short (since I am tired of long stories, as you will see), I am no longer interested in enslaving myself to a regular blogging schedule. And the BBNS could be especially burdensome, with very little evident bang for the buck, so to speak.
My whole original purpose in setting up and keeping a blog was as a repository for my own thoughts and observations, much like a journal, though certainly not a diary. The secondary reason was to communicate things with those I am most close to: family and friends. “Cyberfriends” made and other incidental traffic gained from the World Wide Web in the process was to be a merely icing, esp. as I helped influence people to embrace the Lord Jesus as their savior and to reaffirm liberty and the Constitution in their political views.
My score on building traffic to this blog has been fairly successful, as this graph of last year’s visits versus this year’s demonstrates. And some new “cyberfriends” have provided anecdotal evidence of at least minor Borg Blog influence in spreading the Gospel and the prudence of a robust constitutionalism in our body politic.
But the key thing has become increasingly clear: For the most part, those closest to me — parents, brothers, in-laws, flesh-and-blood friends (both past and present), etc. - couldn’t really give a hoot about what I write here. I don’t say that with bitterness; just as a factual observation. As well, partly as a consequence and partly as a coincidence, I don’t really give a hoot anymore, either. It just ain’t worth the stress and effort, to be frank. Hence, the days of my intentional blogging here at Borg Blog — for the long foreseeable future, at least — are over.
This blog will remain up on the web, and I am sure I will post things on irregular occasions for my own benefit. But I have removed my stat counter, as I will no longer give a hoot about my traffic, either.
For those actually interested in what my point of view on things might be, I recommend the many linked blogs and webpages at the bottom of this page. None of these sites and people do I agree with 100%. But taken as a whole, I will land somewhere along that spectrum of perspectives on any given issue.
The archives will remain open for those looking for things I’ve written in the past. But future comments, including to this here post, are henceforth closed.
So long.
