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Subject | Re: Fufkin's 48th Issue: It Has Been 4 Years |
Date | Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:35:42 +0000 |
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Casey - Congratulations!
I'm sure I'm not alone in saying this, but THANK YOU for your hard work with Fufkin. Every month I look forward to the e-mail announcing that the new issue is ready. I really enjoy the site and wanted to thank you and all of your writers for the great work!
Thanks, Michael
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> I just published Fufkin's 48th monthly issue, and I want to thank everyone
> on this list for the support we have received from all of you. We average
> over 50,000 unique visitors a month from all over the world, and a core from
> the
> Audities list is what we built the site on. It has been very gratifying for
> me to give a forum for a lot of great writers to write about music and
> artists that otherwise might not receive the type of notice that they deserve,
> even in the alternative media and new media outlets that are out there. It is
> hard to believe it has been 4 years since I approached Mike Bennett at IPO in
> August of 2000 to ask him if he was interested.
>
> My special thanks to my good friends Mike Bennett, Gary Glauber, Gary Pig
> Gold, Alan Haber, Kurt Hernon, Dawn Eden, John Borack, Bill Klutho, Michael
> Lynch, Kevin Mathews, Robert Pally, Kurt Sampsel, Eric Sorensen, Eliot Wilder,
> Shona Winfrey and Nick A. Zaino, III who are the writers who made Fufkin what
> it is and why we were recognized by SXSW as having some of the finest music
> criticism on the internet. I want to thank past writers who have contributed
> excellent work over the past four years, Jon Bard, James Baumann, Rick
> Bilous, Anna Borg, Ken Burke, Lane Campbell, Katherine Kim, Kerry Chicoine, Ben
> Collins, Jason Thompson, Michael Potter, Mark Sanders, Julia Scott, Richard
> Scroggs, Andrew Tarsy, Jason Thompson and Mike Stax. I want to thank my great
> friend Bruce Brodeen, Michael Roux and everyone at Parasol, Rainbow Quartz,
> Call Girl PR, Mint Records and all of the other labels, publicists and artists
> who send boxes and boxes of promos for us to listen to. As we go into our
> 4th year, we're looking for some new blood and we have some new features that
> I hope we can implement by early next year, like a blog and some other ideas
> that I have. I hope we can continue to publish forever. I think that will
> depend on if we can find some additional writers with some time, good taste
> and some writing skills. Please contact me at _fundaro@aol.com_
> (mailto:fundaro@aol.com) if you know anyone with enthusiasm, good taste in any
> genre of
> music and some writing talent. Thanks again.
>
> Casey Fundaro
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