[Erlist] The New Wet Asphalt

[Eric Rosenfield]

Hello everyone,
Wet Asphalt has relaunched. You can see it here:
http://www.wetasphalt.com/

Here's the post announcing what's changed:

I'm both sad and somewhat relieved to say that Wet Asphalt is no longer a
literary magazine published like a blog, or a literary blogazine. That idea
was a good one, even an excellent one, but without much more time and money
than I have at my disposal it was never able to be what what we wanted it to
be <http://www.wetasphalt.com/?q=content/what-wet-asphalt>. With my
compatriot Quackenbush's contributions dwindling to nil and submissions at
barely a trickle, the site increasingly became my own personal blog, which
was unfortunate because I already had a personal
blog<http://www.ericrosenfield.com/>.
To complicate things, I increasingly have more and more venues to place
reviews and literary essays (ironically, thanks mostly to this site), which
has made it harder to decide what I should publish here and what I should
save for other places. Also other projects <http://www.literatemachine.com/>,
not to mention my various day-job commitments, continue to take up my time.

The conclusion I ultimately came to was that it only made sense to
consolidate my efforts. Wet Asphalt is now my personal blog in name as well
as practice. JF Quackenbush is welcome to use it as his personal blog as
well. It will still have the kind of link lists and commentary it's had for
the last few months, but it will also have personal musings and non-literary
content previously reserved for EricRosenfield.com. It will no longer have
my essays and reviews (except for very short form and/or personal rambling
sorts of reviews), though if possible I will link to where those have been
published on other sites. The result will be that this site will be updated
much more frequently.

EricRosenfield.com will turn into a portal, with recent Wet Asphalt and
Literate Machine posts, my Del.icio.us tags, and so on.

My Live Journal <http://erosenfield.livejournal.com/> will go dark. I wasn't
using it much anyway.

Wet Asphalt is dead. Long live Wet Asphalt.
Thanks everyone,
Eric Rosenfield
http://www.wetasphalt.com
http://www.literatemachine.com
http://www.ericrosenfield.com
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