19th Century Salons were stuffy places that disappeared, today as much ‘intellectual’ chit chat takes place in saloon bars and cafes. [OK this is actually just to post rationalize the headline].
Ken Layne spies some changes at Salon and identifies it with the current trend to what Jeff Jarvis calls ‘nanopublishing’ and Nick Denton is doing in serial fashion.
“Maybe someone or something is buying Salon. Maybe they’ll run it cheaply, like the group Web log that it is. “