It's another form of censorship, isn't it? Anyway, I've been browsing their site today and I was pleasantly surprised by the content. They had a great article about how cocoa beans, for chocolate production, are harvested by slave laborers over in Africa, some of them little kids. I never knew that. I really enjoyed browsing it today. I think that if they changed their forum, "The Well," to more of an anonymous forum-type site that they'd have more lurkers and therefore more subscriptions. But, $18 for a year is not a big deal. I think the problem has been that people didn't want to pay for content that they weren't sure of. $18 for information for the year is nothing. Plus, now they have the option to simply spend 10 seconds clicking through an advertisement and you can read for free. I spend more than that bursting the pop-ups on regular sites, so I have no problem with Salon charging $18. In fact, you have NO pop-ups with Salon, period, so it's worth reading for that fact alone! Hope other people check it out too.
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So, yes, I agree that Salon probably made some bad business moves over the past few years, but how many of us can honestly say that we owe no money to anyone and are not in debt? I have a stack of what I casually refer to "90's free-for-all" credit card bills in the back drawer that will take me until 2010 to pay off. I also believed in the 90s faux economy until it collapsed, overnight, it almost seems. Salon apparently did also and under calculated and over spent.
However, that doesn't necessarily mean that we should dance over the demise of site that promotes free thinking and thought. Say what you will about their business practices, the idea that this is one of the last sites that promotes free thought and makes this site worth saving.
Going to McDonald's costs me close to $10. I usually cruise by Mickey D's four times a month. I think that I'll just save the greasy fries and instead buy that subscription, either the $30 or the $18 version, instead.
No, I don't agree with a lot that is written there, but I also don't agree with what *some* people here have to say -- but I keep on reading!
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It's another form of censorship, isn't it? Anyway, I've been browsing their site today and I was pleasantly surprised by the content. They had a great article about how cocoa beans, for chocolate production, are harvested by slave laborers over in Africa, some of them little kids. I never knew that. I really enjoyed browsing it today. I think that if they changed their forum, "The Well," to more of an anonymous forum-type site that they'd have more lurkers and therefore more subscriptions. But, $18 for a year is not a big deal. I think the problem has been that people didn't want to pay for content that they weren't sure of. $18 for information for the year is nothing. Plus, now they have the option to simply spend 10 seconds clicking through an advertisement and you can read for free. I spend more than that bursting the pop-ups on regular sites, so I have no problem with Salon charging $18. In fact, you have NO pop-ups with Salon, period, so it's worth reading for that fact alone! Hope other people check it out too.
However, that doesn't necessarily mean that we should dance over the demise of site that promotes free thinking and thought. Say what you will about their business practices, the idea that this is one of the last sites that promotes free thought and makes this site worth saving.
Going to McDonald's costs me close to $10. I usually cruise by Mickey D's four times a month. I think that I'll just save the greasy fries and instead buy that subscription, either the $30 or the $18 version, instead.
No, I don't agree with a lot that is written there, but I also don't agree with what *some* people here have to say -- but I keep on reading!