Welcome Salon Bloggers!
We've been expecting you! Come on in, the water's fine!
This is an experimental meta-blog for the purpose of rebuilding the Salon Bloggers (affectionately referred to as "Sloggers") community.
With Salon announcing an end to its free Userland Radio blogs and hosting, the number of Salon bloggers is expected to dwindle. Traffic to the blogs has been falling off since Salon's site redesign this past year, due in part to a lack of front page linkage back to the blogs. The blogs were also not included in Salon's new "Community" configuration, linked from the front page and including TableTalk and The Well. Fellow Sloggers have been slowly leaving Salon's blog environment, migrating to other software and hosting for various reasons; some were dissatisfied with the client-based software, the stability of hosting and the comments system, while others simply wanted something more streamlined without the expense of annual licensing. It's implied that Salon is working on a new blogging-related format, but there is not published plan or strategy as yet. We simply don't know how long it will be before Salon has a new blogging community -- if ever.
Many of us who started blogging in Salon are fond of the fellowship we found among fellow Sloggers. We found folks who were dynamic thinkers, great writers, willing to offer constructive criticism and heartfelt support. We were pushed to achieve even greater things with our blogs because of the caliber of folks we rubbed shoulders with in the community. And we don't want to lose that synergy simply because it doesn't fit in Salon's business model...
So, dig in. We are going to explore this opportunity together. The guideline at this point is that primary emphasis will be given to those bloggers who've been at Salon. Secondary emphasis will be on those folks whose blogging work Sloggers love and who support Sloggers. This is a collaborative effort, as much of our meta-blog discussions were in Salon's blogs; feel free to pipe up and offer a suggestion or critique as we work out the bugs while keeping our community together.
Best to you, fellow Sloggers! Blog on!!
This is an experimental meta-blog for the purpose of rebuilding the Salon Bloggers (affectionately referred to as "Sloggers") community.
With Salon announcing an end to its free Userland Radio blogs and hosting, the number of Salon bloggers is expected to dwindle. Traffic to the blogs has been falling off since Salon's site redesign this past year, due in part to a lack of front page linkage back to the blogs. The blogs were also not included in Salon's new "Community" configuration, linked from the front page and including TableTalk and The Well. Fellow Sloggers have been slowly leaving Salon's blog environment, migrating to other software and hosting for various reasons; some were dissatisfied with the client-based software, the stability of hosting and the comments system, while others simply wanted something more streamlined without the expense of annual licensing. It's implied that Salon is working on a new blogging-related format, but there is not published plan or strategy as yet. We simply don't know how long it will be before Salon has a new blogging community -- if ever.
Many of us who started blogging in Salon are fond of the fellowship we found among fellow Sloggers. We found folks who were dynamic thinkers, great writers, willing to offer constructive criticism and heartfelt support. We were pushed to achieve even greater things with our blogs because of the caliber of folks we rubbed shoulders with in the community. And we don't want to lose that synergy simply because it doesn't fit in Salon's business model...
So, dig in. We are going to explore this opportunity together. The guideline at this point is that primary emphasis will be given to those bloggers who've been at Salon. Secondary emphasis will be on those folks whose blogging work Sloggers love and who support Sloggers. This is a collaborative effort, as much of our meta-blog discussions were in Salon's blogs; feel free to pipe up and offer a suggestion or critique as we work out the bugs while keeping our community together.
Best to you, fellow Sloggers! Blog on!!
posted by Rayne Today at 12:46 PM
8 Comments:
[crickets]
Hello! ............ anybody there?
Hello......... Helloooo...
--Mind keeping it down sir. Some of us are trying to sleep.
Heh. Smart aleck. Look for your invite in the mail. ;-)
Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3, testing...
Weird. "Comment Moderation" is turned on, didn't think I'd had that set. Will check it out and see if this is the bottleneck for Art's comments.
Rayne,
Hurrah for the Salon Meta-Blog! What a wonderful idea, and a very efficient way to keep the community together. Hello out there to all Sloggers from The Data Port.
(For a long time that was: Ojo Caliente)
Salon Blogs goes up on my blogroll today.
I miss the salon days. And yes, it was quite a fun community. The salon people welcomed me to blogging. I appreciate it. Am sad to hear that salon may not continue this.
Let's see, Doug Hennessee of Pipeline and Hugh of SRO come to mind for links on the sidebar. Secular Blasphemy also.
Hey Anne, what was the name of your Salon blog? Do you have the ID number of your blog?
Good to see you, Preach! Do you have a current email address I can sent the invite to?
Will check out Pipeline, will also send an invite to Hugh and the Norwegian blogger. Heh.
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