[andrew]

A very illuminating and pleasant read.

Here's Salon's latest on the Nasdaq boards.

[TADSLOS]

Liberal toilet paper blowin' in the Conservative whirlwind.

[Timesink]

When Salon made most of their site subscription-only a couple months ago, they lost the most important thing they still had left: their buzz. Whether you loved or hated Salon, in the past anything they published that was interesting or provocative was linked around, posted here on FR and a thousand other places, and got talked about ... which, of course, led to lots of hits on Salon's site. But now nobody mentions them at all. Even the few truly newsworthy items they break get ignored, because 99% of the potential audience out there can't access the stories at all, and the 1% that can know it's not worth wasting their time telling anyone else about the stories because they can't link to them.

I'd guess it's been over a month since I actually visited a Salon page, and that's not because I'm intentionally boycotting them; they've simply fallen off the radar screen.

[spald]

hey andrew. thanks for posting the yahoo cite. I went to the message board and posted a note using my Yahoo handle that I registered for when I got the YahooClubFreeRepublic membership (I;m spald_fr).

[spald]

Oh, that link to the Yahoo message board is Right here. I see a number of FReepers already posting there...

[ken5050]

Regardless of political or ideological orientation, only TWO on-line publications have developed a sucessfull paid subscription model..the Wall Street Journal, and oddly enough, Consumer Reports...each has over 650,000 paid subscribers...( the article says 60,000 for the WSJ..it must be a typo)..the major media are pouring hundreds of millions into the black holes of their websites....no way out, but they feel they have to maintain their identity and presense on the web.....but the advertising model doesn't work....

[45Auto]

The question is, can Talbot and his minions possibly be investigated by the SEC for fraud? Piss-poor management is one thing, but I'd like to see what his personal balance sheet is like.

[Drango]

For a MUST read in Sloan check out this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/583976/posts

When they sink to a more than worthless financial level (ie negative)I suggest we collect some funds here and buy 'em. That would be sweeeeeeeeeet justice.

[Billthedrill]

Good grief - 73 million in the tank and no visible assets? Well, lemmesee...that works out to about $5000 a subscriber. To break even. That thumping at the door isn't shareholders trying to get in, it's the wolf.

[RobFromGa]

In terms of strategic planning, Salon seems more akin to a 1970's state-owned entity than a cutting edge dotcom.

That's because they are owned and operated by Socialists. They are just being true to their ideals.

Send them to history's unmarked graveyard of discarded lies.

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