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They tried to tell us that without the power of algorithms, we wouldn't gain any readers, no one would hear about us, and our sites wouldn't emerge from the depths of the Internet for even half a second. How wrong they were. Or perhaps they knew they were wrong, but were trying to prevent anyone else from finding out?Why do I blog anonymously?If you look at the 'This is a deliberate move. I wanted to start building a blog from scratch, as it were, completely cutting myself off from any connec...