FINAL WARNING!

THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING!

I AM PRIVATIZING THIS BLOG AS OF TOMORROW EVENING!

LEAVE YOUR EMAIL IF YOU WANT TO BE ON THE EXCLUSIVE ACCESS LIST!

THE BLOG WILL BE ACCESSIBLE ONLY TO THOSE I INVITE BY EMAIL!

This is it!

The blog will be making the switchover to private tomorrow, making it inaccessible to bots and the general public. I will send out invitation emails to everyone on my list; those good folks will have to acquire a Google account (not a Gmail address) to be able to access my blog. There will be no RSS feed to remind anyone of updates I make, so once enrolled, everyone will just have to make a habit of checking in every so often. Thus far, I have twelve people on my list.

To repeat a previous post—

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A few things to remember:

1. You will receive an email invitation from me, and there will probably be some sort of procedure (maybe involving a password? maybe not) the first time you try to log on to my blog. After that, you should be able to access the blog freely unless you sign out/log off.

2. You do need to acquire a Google account (not a Gmail address) if you don't already have one. That's Google's requirement, not mine. Sorry. See procedure here. Or Google something like, "how to get a Google account without a Gmail address."

3. There will be no RSS feed, so you'll just have to make it a habit to visit the blog now and then since there will be no notifications about new posts.

4. I will probably be posting a lot less unoriginal content once the circle constricts to whatever the final number will be on Sunday (keeping in mind that others might join belatedly). So please expect very little in terms of embedded tweets, YouTube videos, and memes. I have a feeling that a lot of that lazy blogging is why I have so many bots crawling all over the blog.

5. Since you're about to embark on an exclusive experience here, why not also become a free subscriber to my Substack, where I have a small circle of only a couple dozen people? A free subscription gets you access to 10% of my Substack content plus occasional extras (including free previews of paid content); moving to a paying subscription of only $5/month or $50/year (cheaper per month) gets you the other 90%, and I will never charge more than that. See more here. And/or see my blog's sidebar.

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Also:

6. Any straggler who, after Sunday, sees the now-inaccessible blog and wants access can email me directly with a request. My email is on the blog's sidebar. Take a note of it while you still can. You have a little more than 24 hours.

In the meantime, if all I get for my invitation list is twelve people, then so be it. Optimistically assuming everyone visits the blog at least twice or three times a day, that's a maximum of 24–36 daily unique visits. Assuming one visit per day, that's a tentative minimum of 12 unique visits per day. Assuming a certain level of faithlessness (i.e., people who don't visit every day), the theoretical minimum is 0 unique visits per day. Whatever the case, that'll at least initially come as a relief after this storm of bots (29,000 visits today so far—unbelievable). 0–24 visits will feel country-quiet. And I'll have at least some idea of who my visitors will be.

Righto... either get on the list or say bye-bye tomorrow.