Farewell
It's five years since I went "online". Firstly there was the the blog TWANBOC which morphed seamlessly into WOEBOT, then there were other adventures: the text-only blog WOEBOTNiK, an audio stream WOEBOT WADIO, the forum Dissensus and last year the vlog WOEBOT.tv.
Doing WOEBOT has had an offline corollary. I contributed to The New York Press, to The Wire for two years, wrote a column for FACT magazine, was invited through the Kosmische organisation to do many shows on Resonance FM. I made lots of real-world friends and got to fraternise with a bunch of other interesting people who beforehand I'd have no excuse to pester.
Over the past five years I've had the most enormous amount of mailbag. Some emails from names I already knew as a result of years of fan-boy excess, but most were from hitch-hikers on the information super-highway like myself. I've got an inordinate amount of pleasure from them all; so thank you to all the people who have ever written to me.
It has long been my plan to call it a day at the blog after five years, but more recently I've decided to draw a line under all my online contributions. This includes Dissensus, which I'll keep running as long as subscribers there can (year-on-year) raise half the site's hosting fees, but which I won't be contributing to. Why am I going "offline"? I think I've explored every aspect of the experience and that now it's time to do something different, not necessarily something public either, the shape of which I'm still figuring out. Rave on!