Category: Salon Bloggers

  • Blog startup advice for newbies

    Dave Pollard of How to Save the World offers some advice for blog beginners ported from the world of entrepreneurship. I’ll summarize the points here, but you’ll have to rack up a hit on his blog to get the full picture: Give the market what it wants. Be patient. Don’t copycat. Learn from your successes…

  • Conason's theory for the Sun's tirade

    In Salon today Joe Conason speculates about the Sun’s recent editorial opposing freedom of speech for anti-war marchers: I called Sun editor Seth Lipsky—a journalist with a good reputation who professes his devotion to “individual liberties”—to ask why he had published something so irresponsible and rabid. He writes most if not all of the Sun’s…

  • Blather beats pr0n again

    Hey, I just passed Pornographer’s Picks to regain the coveted No. 8 spot in Salon’s all-time blog rankings. Woo-hoo. We’re No. 8! We’re No. 8! USA! USA!

  • FIONA on Radio Userland

    A picture ~= 1 kiloword, right? I’ve had that feeling too, at times. Anyway, Fiona is my new favorite cartoonist. When will we be seeing her work in the New Yorker (or in Salon proper, for that matter)?

  • Putting deficits in perspective

    Frank Boosman of Pseudorandom felt that the “record deficit” chart I reprinted from Reuters earlier this week was misleading, in that it did not put the deficit figures into context as a percentage of GDP (which most economists feel is a more meaningful way of measuring deficits than in terms of absolute dollars). I would…

  • What's with Salon's RSS feed?

    How come my news aggregator keeps picking up Salon headlines from 2002? Is someone over there asleep at the switch? I mean, this Tom the Dancing Bug cartoon is still funny, but where’s the new stuff?