Is SPIN really circling the drain?

I remember seeing videogum every so often in my rss feeds and being very impressed how it never watered down its voice. (its voice being a slightly more high-key version of the standard blog voice, but even that is harder than one might think to pull off on a consistent basis.)

I noticed I still haven't gotten my Daily SPIN email today....

Are Whiney and Harvilla still there?
from that Post link:
Short consumer-engagement time on many of the 40 sites in the Spin network was always a problem, suggesting viewers were popping into many of the sites briefly, spending less than 90 seconds before exiting.

The network includes sites such as Celebuzz, The Superficial, Buzznet and Go Fug Yourself. The company had two major downsizings of staff in 2013, and as the editorial staffs were slashed, traffic began to erode as well. By November, it had fallen to around 26 million unique visitors on all platforms, down from 34 million in March.

Strang said the company currently has about 165 employees. He said the sale of the assets to the new firm did not involve any new layoffs, but added, “We’re constantly trying to be at the right size.”

Wow there are (were?) some dreadful websites operating under that umbrella

Go Fug Yourself?

Just visited that. Credit them for committing themselves to their atrocious branding: They work some variation of "fug" into nearly every headline

Obv. fans of The Naked and The Dead and The Fugs; yay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjT_sYUlt70

and grant morrison's seaguy!

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/chubby1.JPG

Are Whiney and Harvilla still there?

whiney is not still there

Sorry, unless you prefer it that way now.

read the ny post story and then take a wild guess if i'm feeling bad about jumping ship

Yeah, I read it; that's what I fuggered. cheerz

videogum with gabe at its peak was the funniest web site on the internet and i think he (and silvestri etc) have had a big influence on the sense of humor and style of blogging

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, February 3, 2014 7:04 PM (Yesterday)

i haven't read vgum in YEARS but i just tried to read that post announcing the move or whatever and shuddered at the voice that girl was taking. maybe i'd hate it from gabe too these days, i don't know

nah she's not good

if this is it for Spin, you gotta give it credit, it took this thread almost exactly 10 years to come true

xp yeah it's that "whoops I dropped my thought... ANYWAY" style of writing, which pervades a lot of those junk Spin Media sites. Nothing wrong with it on a blog (or a forum) or whatever, but no sympathy for the investors just now realizing they aren't going to get rich off of it

no i think there's a lot wrong with adults writing that way anywhere

Short consumer-engagement time on many of the 40 sites in the Spin network was always a problem, suggesting viewers were popping into many of the sites briefly, spending less than 90 seconds before exiting.

In the case of Spin, this might be because after loading, all non-slideshow pieces would redirect to the home page, and all slideshow listicles would only reload the first slide.

(In my work browser)

lol can u imagine

if this is it for Spin, you gotta give it credit, it took this thread almost exactly 10 years to come true

could be the moron who originated it

if somebody just lost their job I think they get a pass on writing style for the day

Miss dash snowden

dash snowden was a lady? a single lady? ::straightens tie::

Back off, buster. I saw her first

Go Fug Yourself?

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 19:12 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just visited that. Credit them for committing themselves to their atrocious branding: They work some variation of "fug" into nearly every headline

― Evan R, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 19:14 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my partner used to love go fug yourself, though i've not heard her mention it in a lnog while

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/6029295/spins-editor-in-chief-departs?utm_source=twitter

Someone just pull the trigger already.

guilty lol @ "Aswad"

Wow, Jem Aswad has been around forever. When I went to my first CMJ Convention back in 1989, he was a panellist working for Dutch East India Trading Company, I think!

i always thought he was a chick named jen

sorry bro

not surprising for reasons that have nothing to do with jem, who is a good dude

Knowing SPIN's state these days, you could have stopped after the first two words.

well yeah

DON: Hey, that's my line.

GLENN: Never mind, Henley. Fuckin' pencil necks.

happy tenth anniversary to this thread

belated

Slow motion drain-circling in the Internet Age.

but, yeah, jem is a completely good dude.

http://bandwidth.wamu.org/what-does-this-thievery-corporation-review-mean/

http://www.spin.com/#reviews/thievery-corporation-saudade/

April Fools’ Day joke? Elaborate pan? It’s unclear, at least to me. The review by Spin contributor Garrett Kamps, dated April 1, ostensibly sets out to assess the new long-player from D.C.’s Thievery Corporation, which came out on the same day. What it does instead is copy text from the Wikipedia page for “sushi.”

shoulda saved that gag for a neneh cherry review

honestly though, the copy editor didn't even fix the links
http://www.spin.com/wiki/Daikon

lol "the copy editor"

fair enough

"Asphalt can be used to cover cobblestones. It can be taken home (if no one is lookin'). Asphalt should not be confused with, with, with, with . . . asbestos. Confuse them at your own risk. Insects will sometimes live in cement but never asphalt. Asphalt soup tastes like tar. Asphalt soap does not clean especially well. Asphalt dopes are QUITE dopey. They know nothing of asphalt (having never seen it); some live in Alaska." And now, here, the subject matter is simply gone, erased; it's not even a point to be walked away from. The screen, camera, page is blank, and Meltzer is just writing. How does it feel to be on your own?

"Asphalt dopes are QUITE dopey. They know nothing of asphalt (having never seen it); some live in Alaska." This can be connected to his (70s, 80s?) point about "Xerox rock," where we get copies of copies of copies, graying out, as time goes by.

http://adage.com/article/media/craig-marks-named-editor-chief-spin/293699/

Music website Spin.com has named Craig Marks its editor in chief.

Mr. Marks was executive editor of Spin magazine in the 1990s before helping to introduce Blender magazine. "I've always been very involved in music journalism and I think Spin is the best place I could possibly be for that," he told Ad Age.

best place

Spin.com had 679,000 mobile and desktop unique visitors in May, up 5% from a year ago, according to ComScore.

lol

spin's reviews section is going away effective 8/31

sounds about right