Dotcom blues threaten Salon By Garry BarkerJune 28 2002 It began as an exciting experiment in online publishing: an intelligent, quality magazine that could be read for free on your computer screen.Salon, founded in 1995, boasted columnists including controversial academic Camille Paglia and writers Garrison Keilor and Greil Marcus. It covered the worlds of politics, pop culture, books, the media and technology and had a long-running column called "Mothers Who Think". It was witty, smart, newsy, irreverent and adored by the cultural cognoscenti.But this week Salon's future looked dire. In its annual report, the Salon Group announced a deficit of $US76.6...