#journalism

I Helped Launch Salon.com 31 Years Ago. Now It’s Dead. It’s the End of an Era.

Laura Miller, one of the co-founders of Salon, reflects on the life and death of the pioneering digital publication.

Slate · EN

I'll believe it when I see the 404.

After 3 decades Salon.com has finally pulled the plug and is quitting all operations. Long before there was SLYT there was Salon - the destination of hundreds of posts and thousands of comments here on Metafilter. And often the post subject itself: especially as Salon struggled to survive the dot com implosion in 2001. Salon kept going after 'tightening it's belt' , facing more biz scrutiny and even getting the death watch treatment . Other events noted here included when Salon shuttered and deleted Table Talk followed by selling off the well.com . It was about ten years ago when Politico even

Metafilter · EN

Introducing Machine Gods

Why we're betting on AI realism. PLUS: The hell of PHP2Shell

Platformer · EN