"Aaah! It's Still Alive! It's Still Moving!"

It has been dying for a long time now, but as always it manages to stumble off the deathbed: Salon gets a fresh cash influx from Jann Wenner (letting no moss gather with his $200,000 cash plus journalistic collaboration between the Web site and Rolling Stone) and John Warnock, co-chair of Adobe ($600,000).

Comments

[very afraid]

Whenever I'm directed there I get this creepy message:

We are watching you. Be careful which sites you visit. Site Blocked by SonicWALL Filter

What's up with that?

[erf]

What's the big deal? Salon is allright. I usually read them about as often as I read this site.

[Douglas Fletcher]

The people have spoken! Or at least a couple of them have.

[jon]

I haven't read Salon in two or three years. Ever since they started demanding subscriptions I haven't been there. I found a vast number of places with similar content and no force-fed advertisements. The annoyance factor was just too much for me to bear.

Basing a website in San Francisco sounds like a money-losing idea from the start. I can't understand the need for a general interest magazine to be based in one of the highest-rent areas of the country. But I guess only big city folk know politics, culture, and film, while us rubes in places like Tucson need you to explain it to us in entertaining formats.

Nerve.com, based in New York City, also asks for money. Luckily, there are still a few places on the web where I can find sexually-explicit material. The Onion (which also is in NYC) has an opt-out button for its advertisement, which keeps me going back.

[Andrew Lynch]

Ugh, where's a Shakespearean poisoner when you need one.