06.17.07

mutednoise: on hiatus

Posted in site news at 11:04 pm by Matthew Reinbold

I feel like this is something akin to the show that could have been good but never really hit its stride having its series finale. As I mentioned on the organizational parent blog, BloomBurst, recent events have had me take a long, hard look at where I was spending my time. A result has been some difficult choices.

The point of the painful exercise was deciding what I could really put all my passion into and make great and that which needed to stop slowly burning resources. An archive dating back to 2002 (and an online presence of one sort or another since 1999) is hard to walk away from. During that time mutednoise has been an electronic music act (at the forefront of the failed glitchcore movement, I delude myself to think), a geek forum, a repository for gears, games, and music news, and finally an online culture blog. At each reinvention I continued to contribute but never really enough to make this place a destination. I suppose the information super highway needs the odd curio shop here and there but manning the counter in that type of joint – and not having the passion or resources to make it something more – means it gets kind of lonely.

If time were limitless it would be fun to continue posting assumptions at what the geek hath wrought. However, what the glaring revelations of the last few weeks have cast in sharp relief is that I’m trying to do too much. I was well on my way to launching a number of new blogs around an ever increasing list of interest points. I want my own ‘new culture niche’ media network (Next New Networks be damned). But while technology has made it so incredibly easy and cheap to start those ventures making them powerful successes is a whole different matter.

So now my effort is narrowly channeled into carefully chosen pursuits which have the best chance – given devotion, time, and intellectual sweat – to do more than exist; the goal is to make an impact.

The archive will stay up till March of next year (2008) at which point the hosting will not be renewed. The domain name is paid up for the next several years. I will return to mutednoise if (1) I come up with a new angle that is powerful enough to get behind and/or (2) operations across the other sites are humming along nicely and I’m ready to apply what I’ve learned under the hood here.

However, barring those things it is time to close the book on mutednoise. Thank you for reading, for making comments, and (for those of you that have been here long enough) downloading tracks.

I’ll be seeing you online.

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