No doubt that the golden days of crate-digging blogs are over. It's small wonder that The CTI Never Sleeps survived the first waves of blog-killing spree of this year, which affected many great jazz blogs including Smooth's My Jazz World, El Reza, BeeQ, Jazzever or Call It Anything. We've been through thick and thin and the last months were flawed by post take-downs, comments sections spammed by chinese nogoodniks and also total lack of donations (which I didn't let affect the blog contents), so the situation wasn't bearable any longer.
I'd like to say thank you to all the concerned The CTI Never Sleeps readers who kept coming in thousands every day and who literally flooded my email today with condolations and questions regarding the future of the blog. Frankly I do not see it in bright colours as The Man had not only taken the blog down but also depraved me of all the content including hundreds of posts and thousands of your lovely comments. As there is no backup and the blog was deleted even from G**gle archive cache, I can't imagine how could I restore almost 3 years of work on another server just to wait for the pendulum to swing again.
What I can imagine is some small-scale under-the-radar version of The CTI Never Sleeps with link to my extensive password-protected RS Link List. I've put quite some time into re-ripping the site content into lossless formats so there's still a lot of stuff that would surely please the readers and wasn't posted due to the DMCA notifications shower. No need to say that readers who donate will be given premium access. Please allow me a couple of days to sort it out and come with some reasonable compromise.
Stay tuned!
