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Embracing Obscurity

7/27/2019

 
Yesterday a Facebook post reminded me of something I had posted here—in this “News” section that effectively became a blog—and I sought to find it. The page or pages were no longer registered with Google, though they used to be (for I have searched and found before).

Recently there have been frantic messages from Google about re-certifying my site (or something). I tried to do what I could. But I am not especially web-literate, barely savvy, and I question how much time I want to devote to this.

So, in the process of searching for that page (which pertained to James J.Y. Liu on Chinese poetry), I noticed that next month will be the five-year anniversary of establishing this website. The exact day escapes me, but the blog feature started on the 31st. I was fishing around for content, most of it incidental.
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Do I want to still bother with it? The url is not due to expire immediately; but my need to “put myself out there” is not what it was to begin with. Gradually the impetus toward self-promotion has died with me; the need for feedback from the world “That never wrote to me”.

This is the Anthropocene.

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