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Hi everybody. As I announced Friday on The Googlization of Everything, I am suspending this blog for a while -- maybe forever.

You may have noticed that we have not posted here for about a month. That's because we learned in August that the servers at NYU had been taken over by some evil porn bots. By the time NYU got around to telling us that everything was cool, we were busy with a thousand other projects.

But now, we are back to say farewell.

All week I will invite the various Sivacracy contributors to post their own alohas here. And I will cap it all off with a long, sappy farewell message on Friday. But meanwhile, here is what I have been up to.

Over on the blog section of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Mark Bauerlein and I are going to do a series of conversational posts about the essays that we wrote in this week's Chronicle Review. Mine is called "Generational Myth: Digital Youth are a False Demographic Category."

In the essay, I make two arguments that should be familiar to Sivacracy readers.

1) What we call "the digital generation" is not universally or uniformly digital.

2) There is no such thing as a "generation" anyway.

Please check out our essays and the forum discussion that Mark has graciously offered to host. I will post the URLs when the Chronicle posts the pieces.

I have been busy writing The Googlization of Everything and getting back into the teaching mode. I am teaching a great course on "Privacy and Surveillance" this semester. I am not allowed to tell you any more about it.

Oh, and there is much more. All good. I will let the rest of the crew say goodbye in their own ways and tell you what they are up to as well.

So why am I suspending this blog? Mainly, it's a distraction from my day jobs. I have a massive and painful book deadline coming up. If I continued to blog daily about the election and the state of the world and everything else I would drive myself and everyone around me crazy.

Plus, this is less fun than it used to be. Back in 2004 it seemed fun. Blogs were the bomb. Now, I think my blogging voice is hoarse. And I am tired.

There is more. I will reflect on it all in my farewell post on Friday.

Until then, Aloha.