Is SPIN really circling the drain?

this could be cool

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.

SPIN has done a horrible job preserving its history. You gotta go to Google Books to read an old story.

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..."

oh yeah, thats totally otm

'will ever'? i mean i dont read spin & havent ever really but i dont see what's stopping them from having a web presence

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

i just started writing for them so i'm sure they'll fold any day now

(that's what happened to blender)

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.

where are the taxpayer bailouts for print music mags

http://www.theonion.com/articles/failing-us-economy-no-reason-at-all-to-stop-invest,21251/

like, just hire ppl that draw traffic. there's no big trick to it

― dangobro (D-40), Wednesday, October 5, 2011 3:38 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol -- carles already works for grantland

the idea of having 'the right traffic-attracting writers' to keep a mag/site afloat is kind of laughable tbh

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

??? 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'!

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

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

its not an either/or thing

1000TimesYes 11:39am via Web As of today, I'm the new Senior Editor at @SPINmagazine. Big shit poppin, little shit stoppin: bit.ly/oaEFMc
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ILX FEATURES NOW

congrats! now give me work haha

beatles features now

beatles features now

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

Charles Aaron's still there? Wow!

He's been writing for them since at least 1994.

congrats chris! i'm sure spin won't be circling the drain as long as our boy is drowning the competition

Whiny, you're in charge of ladling soup at the ILX Rock Critics homeless shelter.

congrats whiney! \(^o^)/ \(^o^)/

lol @ al

congrats whiney! \(^o^)/ \(^o^)/

― markers, Tuesday, October 11, 2011 2:42 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol @ al

― The boyboy young jess (D-40), Tuesday, October 11, 2011 2:45 PM Bookmark

is there gonna be a regular Whiney rant feature?

its called ilm

In the next SPIN: "Who The Fuck Are These 'Beatles,' Anyway?"

there needs to be a DR WHINEY PHD CULTURAL STUDY in each issue

congrats 2 the big whinester

may u live 2 see the dawn

there needs to be a DR WHINEY PHD CULTURAL STUDY in each issue

^^^

grats whiney

Congratulations Whiney.

Thanks guys :D

I looked upthread and totally forgot to say congrats

CONGRATS

Break a leg!

Can you afford to move out to the suburbs now?

whoa congrats dude!

congrats whiney! i will totally start asking my local news agents why they dont have spin now

also believe that yes we need dr whiney phd in each issue