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Salon Asks for Help
Henry V .009 writes "Salon.com is appealing to the community for help. They haven't been able to pay the rent since December. To date, they've lost about $80 million dollars. A cause of rejoicing for some. But their many readers are understandably sorry to see them in such desperate straits. Personally I hope they stick around, I think they are one of the best sources of independant journalism on the web--even if I happen to agree with less than 10% of what they have to say. I also think that it would be a shame for them to close now that they've finally created an advertising scheme that has a snowball's chance in hell of working on the web. I can actually recall some of the adverts I've seen on Salon--what other web site can you say that about? Salon says that if they get another 50,000 subscriptions (they currently have 50,000) they'll break even for the year." In the old role-playing game "Paranoia", there was a nice quote about what would happen when the player characters (who had never been outside of their enclosed city complex) made an attempt to swim in water over their heads: "delaying drowning".
1. Outsource IT department to India. This should reduce the payroll by 90%, conservatively.
2. Use all OSS software. Just mention something about "sticking it to Gates", and Salon will have coders scrambling to write special code for free.
I don't have much to say, except that I'm a Salon Premium subscriber and I DEPEND on Salon. There is nothing else like it. No substitute.
I'm sure there will be a lot of comments like: "this is just capitalism at work, survival of the fittest, etc."
If Salon goes under, then it's an example of how capitalism can FAIL.
Why is it that liberals and their ilk just dont understand simple market dynamics.
The American people aren't as liberal as liberals want to believe.
Therefore - rags like salon.com will fail - Rush Limbaugh and Fox News will contiune to profit and kick major ass.
Wake up! - America is conservative.
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Perhaps they should go to the gov't with their hands out.
Isn't it funny that nobody will pay to hear liberal garbage?
Sure we have to get it through ABC/CBS/NBC, but that is, for all intensive purposes, free.
Liberalism is dying a fairly rapid death. Nobody takes it seriously anymore when they look for solutions.
Liberalism enslaves.
I'm still working on a clever footer.
Exactly. People don't like being lied to, and are slowly realizing that the Left is Anti-American and Anti-Freedom. Also, most people who read NR and listen to talk radio are the best and brightest (in Boston), unlike certain other groups who don't understand a logical argument or inconsistency.
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...gave up his $750,000/yr salary (50% higher than Bill Gates' salary) maybe they could make it. They need 25,000 subscribers alone just to pay his salary. And then there's the content they have to pay for.