The Digital Music Weblog retires
February 1st, 2007
As regular readers differentiate, as of today. The blog will pursue to get by as a searchable archive. and Gordon, who must written so splendidly in this space, are staying in the network.
Whenever we make a variation, there is some disappointment among readers, and sadness in support of -- including those of us involved in decision-making. We take up it all seriously; nothing this is capricious. TDMW has lived tight-lipped to our hearts, and especially mingy to extract.
This blog was my starting remind emphasize at WIN ( if you're interested). It was a little tough to let it go when I was hired by AOL, but bestow, Gordon (Tommy Perkins and Sharky Laguna before them) possess done an amazing headache carrying onward the blog's relentless examinations of the RIAA's colossal machinations and the opportunist maneuvers of the indie music scene. And it's leathery now to get going the blog into retirement.
It's vital to appropriate effectively that a blog retirement is not a blog failure. Here at Weblogs, Inc. we are continually honing our network to be the best content engine against readers and bloggers both. In participation, that means figuring out how to divide our resources that, sadly, are not unfathomable. We have changed tremendously in the last three years, expanding wildly at the start into a fair of magnitude publishing design, then refining and contracting relatively into a leaner car. We hold more bloggers than ever ahead of, and fewer blogs than a year ago. That means a dazzling concentration of minds and voices in our chosen fields of publication. A complete example is , his recent refuge.
I require for everyone on the Weblogs, Inc. yoke when I give the greatest gratefulness to our amazing bloggers, who wake up every unique broad daylight thinking, "What at one's desire I dig up today?" Professional blogging is unlike any other freelance writing gig, in both its relentless allot and editorial candidness. I am without exception proud of our unite, and usually awed.
for all time, thanks to every Tom who took an interest in The Digital Music Weblog, both casual visitors and dedicated readers. | | |
Whenever we make a variation, there is some disappointment among readers, and sadness in support of -- including those of us involved in decision-making. We take up it all seriously; nothing this is capricious. TDMW has lived tight-lipped to our hearts, and especially mingy to extract.
This blog was my starting remind emphasize at WIN ( if you're interested). It was a little tough to let it go when I was hired by AOL, but bestow, Gordon (Tommy Perkins and Sharky Laguna before them) possess done an amazing headache carrying onward the blog's relentless examinations of the RIAA's colossal machinations and the opportunist maneuvers of the indie music scene. And it's leathery now to get going the blog into retirement.
It's vital to appropriate effectively that a blog retirement is not a blog failure. Here at Weblogs, Inc. we are continually honing our network to be the best content engine against readers and bloggers both. In participation, that means figuring out how to divide our resources that, sadly, are not unfathomable. We have changed tremendously in the last three years, expanding wildly at the start into a fair of magnitude publishing design, then refining and contracting relatively into a leaner car. We hold more bloggers than ever ahead of, and fewer blogs than a year ago. That means a dazzling concentration of minds and voices in our chosen fields of publication. A complete example is , his recent refuge.
I require for everyone on the Weblogs, Inc. yoke when I give the greatest gratefulness to our amazing bloggers, who wake up every unique broad daylight thinking, "What at one's desire I dig up today?" Professional blogging is unlike any other freelance writing gig, in both its relentless allot and editorial candidness. I am without exception proud of our unite, and usually awed.
for all time, thanks to every Tom who took an interest in The Digital Music Weblog, both casual visitors and dedicated readers. | | |
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