After months of deliberation I have decided to go ahead and close down this site. I would like everyone to know that this was a very tough decision to make, and certainly not one that I am happy to have to make. There are a number of reasons which have forced me to do this, but the primary reason is that I simply do not have time to maintain the site with everything else I have going on in my life. I have attempted to find people willing to contribute here many times during the last two years, but my requests for a contributor have always gone unanswered. This has been a major source of disappointment for me during this time. It has always confused me as to how some blog admins are able to find dozens of contributors, and yet I have been not able to find one individual willing to help keep this place alive despite the tens of thousands of visitors I receive every month.
I have had very little free time on my hands during the time I have been running this site, and my circumstances won't be changing any time soon. For the past year I have been putting in close to 75 hours a week between working and going to school full time, running this site and my regular music blog, and trying to maintain some resemblance of a personal life. All of this has proven to be too much for me to handle, and I have finally decided to stop being so stubborn and accept the inevitable. Whenever I tackle anything in life I try to do it to the best of my ability, and it has become increasingly obvious that I've been doing a piss-poor job of running this site as of late. I have tried to prevent the site from becoming obsolete, but there are a number of other sites which are doing what I do, and doing a much better job of it.
I would like to thank everyone who has visited this site and all who have linked to it over the years. I'm happy that I was able to help more than 600,000 people discover quality music blogs that they might not found on their own. I have decided that rather than spreading myself too thin I am simply going to focus on the Digital Meltd0wn music blog, and run it to the very best of my ability. To all those who currently have a link to this site on your blog, I would like to ask you to please link to my music blog instead. The address is: http://digitalmeltd0wn.blogspot.com
I still haven't decided whether I want to take this site offline, or leave it up until it has obviously run its course. I would prefer to "go out on top" though, rather than let the site continue to die a slow and miserable death. If anyone would like for me to send them the source code for the blogroll, or create a text file with all the links to the blogs listed here, I would be happy to do so. For those interested, I will still be maintaining the aggregated RSS feed for all the sites that are listed here for my own personal reasons on my Google Reader account. You can find the address to it here: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/02628427451354667243/label/Shared%20Items
My e-mail address is in my profile if any of you would like to contact me for any reason. I would still be willing to keep this site alive if I could find someone willing to contribute, but unless that happens this is the end of the line. Once again, thank you everyone. It was fun while it lasted. :(
I have had very little free time on my hands during the time I have been running this site, and my circumstances won't be changing any time soon. For the past year I have been putting in close to 75 hours a week between working and going to school full time, running this site and my regular music blog, and trying to maintain some resemblance of a personal life. All of this has proven to be too much for me to handle, and I have finally decided to stop being so stubborn and accept the inevitable. Whenever I tackle anything in life I try to do it to the best of my ability, and it has become increasingly obvious that I've been doing a piss-poor job of running this site as of late. I have tried to prevent the site from becoming obsolete, but there are a number of other sites which are doing what I do, and doing a much better job of it.
I would like to thank everyone who has visited this site and all who have linked to it over the years. I'm happy that I was able to help more than 600,000 people discover quality music blogs that they might not found on their own. I have decided that rather than spreading myself too thin I am simply going to focus on the Digital Meltd0wn music blog, and run it to the very best of my ability. To all those who currently have a link to this site on your blog, I would like to ask you to please link to my music blog instead. The address is: http://digitalmeltd0wn.blogspot.com
I still haven't decided whether I want to take this site offline, or leave it up until it has obviously run its course. I would prefer to "go out on top" though, rather than let the site continue to die a slow and miserable death. If anyone would like for me to send them the source code for the blogroll, or create a text file with all the links to the blogs listed here, I would be happy to do so. For those interested, I will still be maintaining the aggregated RSS feed for all the sites that are listed here for my own personal reasons on my Google Reader account. You can find the address to it here: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/02628427451354667243/label/Shared%20Items
My e-mail address is in my profile if any of you would like to contact me for any reason. I would still be willing to keep this site alive if I could find someone willing to contribute, but unless that happens this is the end of the line. Once again, thank you everyone. It was fun while it lasted. :(