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Related: About this forumPam Spaulding closing her LGBT site 'Pam's House Blend'
http://www.towleroad.com/2013/06/pam-spaulding-closing-her-lgbt-site-pams-house-blend.htmlA sad day for the LGBT online community. Pam Spaulding, a veteran activist, prolific blogger, and friend of Towleroad is closing her long-running site Pam's House Blend, she writes in a post today:
My decision to close the blog is just as reality-based as its content has been. If I cannot produce material at the frequency or with the same level of quality, enthusiasm and effectiveness, its really time to close the doors to this coffeehouse and work to ensure it continues to have a life as an archive, a snapshot in our digital political history. Pamshouseblend.com will redirect to archives...
MADem
(135,425 posts)hunter
(38,340 posts)I understand completely.
It doesn't cost much to maintain a static site that's getting fewer and fewer hits.
Maybe I'd give the sites away for love, maybe I'll be crazy living in a cardboard box away from the internet without a dollar to spare, but I'm not selling.
MADem
(135,425 posts)time?
I don't know much about her business model, but she should have "Wonkette-ed" her site--leased it out, if not sold it. If she has medical issues it could help pay the bills.
FreeState
(10,585 posts)Last edited Tue Jun 18, 2013, 03:45 AM - Edit history (2)
(there was a lot of talk about it when she moved it to Firedoglake) she moved it to http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com a few years ago (rather than host it herself).
MADem
(135,425 posts)I didn't know the culture of the site at all, but I did think it had enough juice to be worth something.
I miss the "Media Horse" (nyuck nyuck) myself, still...but times change.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)This is a sad loss.
AndyA
(16,993 posts)Surely there must be some who would be glad to write for the site from time to time.