Yeah, I quit buying this a long time ago, but recently subscribed to it via my Nook because of a deal for 50 cents an issue. But, tbh, after the awful Skrillex cover this week, its not even worth the 13 seconds to download anymore.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
this could be cool
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not sure if SPIN will ever have much if any presence on the web tho
"if any"? They do have a fairly frequently updated site now, but its a nightmare because of all the damn click-through listicle shit.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
SPIN has done a horrible job preserving its history. You gotta go to Google Books to read an old story.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
sorry, i didn't mean "presence" as in, like, they literally have a web site that is updated. i mean in terms of hits and/or people going "i read this thing on spin.com today..."
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah, thats totally otm
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
'will ever'? i mean i dont read spin & havent ever really but i dont see what's stopping them from having a web presence
― dangobro (D-40), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
like, just hire ppl that draw traffic. there's no big trick to it
I've never written for Spin, and I can't even remember the last time I read it (10 years ago, maybe?) but this is bad news for a lot of writer friends of mine
― geeta, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
i just started writing for them so i'm sure they'll fold any day now
― the-dream in the witch house (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
(that's what happened to blender)
― the-dream in the witch house (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, yeah--I wrote some reviews for Blender, a while back, and forgot to invoice so I could get paid. Then they folded, so I never did get paid for them.
― geeta, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
where are the taxpayer bailouts for print music mags
― the-dream in the witch house (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/failing-us-economy-no-reason-at-all-to-stop-invest,21251/
― dangobro (D-40), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
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lol -- carles already works for grantland
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
the idea of having 'the right traffic-attracting writers' to keep a mag/site afloat is kind of laughable tbh
― nəverDirty (some dude), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it is -- it was mostly about getting there first, and SPIN.com did not get there first or second or third or fourth or fifth etc IMO
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
??? im not talking about people attracting readers by name recognition (although the Atlantic has proved that is a viable model at some level) but hiring people who ... know how to draw traffic. I mean, there are websites that do this. You don't have to 'be there first'!
― dangobro (D-40), Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
obviously who's writing and what they're writing about is important, but i kinda feel like a site has to do a bunch of other things right in order for that writing to actually generate traffic, and Spin pretty much did all of those things wrong, so the quality of the writing barely enters into it
― nəverDirty (some dude), Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
i mean sure, you can do something like firing the whole idolator staff and hiring some SEO robots, but i'm not sure if that's what SPIN is aiming for w/ their website
altho maybe it is idk -- if so, good luck to them
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
its not an either/or thing
― dangobro (D-40), Thursday, 6 October 2011 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
1000TimesYes 11:39am via Web As of today, I'm the new Senior Editor at @SPINmagazine. Big shit poppin, little shit stoppin: bit.ly/oaEFMc2 retweets
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
ILX FEATURES NOW
― the tax avocado (DJP), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
congrats! now give me work haha
― geeta, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
beatles features now
― rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
Caryn Ganz will replace online editor Mark Bautz, who is leaving the company.Ganz, who has worked at Rollingstone.com and Yahoo, is joined by two other new hires, senior editor Christopher Weingarten and associate editor David Bevan. They’ll work on print and online, supporting Spin’s digital emphasis, said editorial director Charles Aaron.“With the magazine going bimonthly,” Aaron said, “the website has to be of the same caliber and depth of the magazine. I think we’ve struggled with that in the past
http://www.adweek.com/news/press/spin-replaces-online-editor-135710
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
Charles Aaron's still there? Wow!
― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
He's been writing for them since at least 1994.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
congrats chris! i'm sure spin won't be circling the drain as long as our boy is drowning the competition
― some dude, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
Whiny, you're in charge of ladling soup at the ILX Rock Critics homeless shelter.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
congrats whiney! \(^o^)/ \(^o^)/
― markers, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ al
― The boyboy young jess (D-40), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
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― turfin' bird (The Reverend), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
is there gonna be a regular Whiney rant feature?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
its called ilm
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
In the next SPIN: "Who The Fuck Are These 'Beatles,' Anyway?"
― Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan M. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
there needs to be a DR WHINEY PHD CULTURAL STUDY in each issue
― sarahel, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
congrats 2 the big whinester
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
may u live 2 see the dawn
― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
grats whiney
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
Congratulations Whiney.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 11:42 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks guys :D
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
I looked upthread and totally forgot to say congrats
CONGRATS
― the tax avocado (DJP), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
Break a leg!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
Can you afford to move out to the suburbs now?
― rustic italian flatbread, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
whoa congrats dude!
― wrestlingisreal420 (crüt), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
congrats whiney! i will totally start asking my local news agents why they dont have spin now
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link