As customary readers know, The Digital Music Weblog is eremitical as of today. The blog make continue to exist as a searchable archive. accede to and Gordon, who have written so splendidly in this space, are staying in the network.

Whenever we make a coppers, there is some disappointment among readers, and sadness for everyone -- including those of us involved in decision-making. We brook it all openly; nothing close by this is quirky. TDMW has lived close to our hearts, and especially completion to mine.

This blog was my starting point at triumph in (read this if you're interested). It was a little difficult to let it go when I was hired by AOL, but Grant, Gordon (Tommy Perkins and Sharky Laguna before them) enjoy done an wonderful crime carrying progressing the blog's relentless examinations of the RIAA's spectacular machinations and the opportunist maneuvers of the indie music landscape. And it's tough any more to move the blog into retirement.

It's conspicuous to point out that a blog retirement is not a blog failure. Here at Weblogs, Inc. we are continually honing our network to be the superb delight appliance for readers and bloggers both. In part, that means figuring extinguished how to divide our resources that, sadly, are not uncountable. We have changed tremendously in the model three years, expanding wildly at the start into a brand of size publishing form, then refining and contracting pretty into a leaner faction. We have more bloggers than at any time before, and fewer blogs than a year ago. That means a stupefying concentration of minds and voices in our chosen fields of daily. A good standard is permit Robertson's fiendish blogging at Download platoon, his new home.

I represent for everyone on the Weblogs, Inc. yoke when I give the greatest appreciation to our marvellous bloggers, who wake up every single day evaluation, "What leave I dig up today?" Professional blogging is unlike any other freelance writing gig, in both its intransigent schedule and editorial honesty. I am always proud of our span, and frequently awed.

ultimately, thanks to everyone who took an interest in The Digital Music Weblog, both offhand visitors and dedicated readers.

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