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* "don't it always seem to go...." (you know the rest of that lyric)

Just a brief note here, to all who have responded to our news of Tuesday morning, whether in comments to the home-page announcement, or on various message-boards and blogs around the web, or in e-mails sent to us:

The cavalcade of empathy has been overwhelming, and overwhelmingly gratifying. Coming to terms with this new reality hasn't been easy for us, but it sure helps to know how many of you share what we've valued about ND all these years.

Sometimes you go about what you're doing every day and week and month and year for such a long time that you maybe don't realize just how many people are aware of, and caring about, what you do. Not that doing No Depression has ever felt like a "normal" job -- but I think its purpose has become clearer simply by dealing with the looming prospect of its absence. And y'all are helping me to understand that. So thanks, very sincerely.

In the meantime, we've still got one more issue to assemble, and we're very much looking forward to that. Beyond the likely print finale, there is the matter of just how we might fit what we do into the ever-shifting sands of the web. Hopefully we can contribute, and not just by being there, but by being GOOD, which seems to me to be the real challenge to internet media today. In a sense, it's the same battle that print always was -- striving to be successful with something of quality amid the flotsam and jetsam of the journalistic barrage. (It's just that the grammar and spelling is a whole lot worse on the net.)

More to come once I've had a chance to address the many dozens of e-mails still awaiting a response. And hopefully at some point soon here, we can stop talking about our own predicament and start just talking about the music again....

adios,
peter

P.S. -- It looks like Grant and I will be interviewed for a piece on All Things Considered running this (Thursday) afternoon/evening, and Kyla will be interviewed for a Weekend Edition piece running on Saturday. Thanks to the good folks at NPR for caring about what we do....

Posted by peter on February 20, 2008 9:21 PM | Permalink