still no analytics

It's been almost 6 months since I killed all active analytics on my blogs. I scrubbed it of Google Analytics and WordPress.com Stats. The only numbers I get now are passive and highly aggregated and anonymized, webserver logs automatically crunched by Urchin.

I don't miss the detailed active analytics one bit. I still find out if anyone links to my stuff, through the WordPress Dashboard links widget. But I have no clue about how many people read my stuff, nor how many RSS subscribers there are.

And that's (still) highly liberating. I can't let myself play egocentric mind games with numbers. I can't delude myself into believing this space is Important, or *cringe* **popular** because those things aren't real, and don't matter.

So now, it's still just me. And, maybe, a few others out there somewhere. And I don't think I could ever go back to the number OCD of active analytics. I've let go of meaningless statistics.