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Salon Blog watch
 | Morgan Sandquist, in Gnosis, finds an "almost Shakespearian tone of irony" in the Arcata Eye's police log. Like vast numbers of other people in the blogosphere Morgan is also reading this diary of a porn store clerk, which apparently was featured recently on This American Life.
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| The word sounds wonderful -- like some sort of hot-rodded "Mad Max" machine skittering just at the edge of your field of vision -- but I can't say I had any idea what a "scramjet" was till just now. Thanks to David Harris's science-news blog, I'm learning: "Scramjets are oxygen-breathing engines that work at hypersonic speeds, giving off water as the only by-product and only needing some hydrogen to run." ...And it seems they've just tested one in Australia successfully -- or at least more successfully than in the past, when the things exploded.
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| Dave Cullen's dueling-leads poll has a winner.
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| Michael Bishop is blogging about comics in Words and Pictures Weblog.
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Joe, of the People are Stupid blog, posted the entire text of Kafka's grim "Parable of the Doorkeeper." Today, he reports a "Kafkaesque experience": he got laid off from a technology startup. Life imitates blog?
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Salon Blogs progress report
Salon Blogs is a week old. Several hundred people have downloaded and installed the software. We had some slow patches with the server the first few days but we think those are a thing of the past (let me know if they're not).
I've seen some posts out there in blogland critical of the fact that Salon is charging for this service. I make no apology for that. As we acknowledge in our FAQ, we know there are plenty of free alternatives out there, and that's just fine -- the Net's a big place and there's room for lots of different approaches. But hosting and maintaining a service costs money, and in these post-bubble times it seems reasonable to ask users for a modest fee in return for good service and good software.
I've also seen some questions raised about Salon's viability. Well, we made our latest financing announcement yesterday. Certainly this has been a difficult business in the current downturn. But in the past, everyone who's bet against our survival has lost. People asked us the same kind of question a year and a half ago when we launched Salon Premium; most of those people have stuck around to renew their subscriptions after the first year.
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Salon Blog watch
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Wozz offers tips on finding "open source music" -- artists who follow the old Grateful Dead model of allowing fans to tape and trade recordings of live shows.
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You've probably read about the new bankruptcy bill that Congress is this close to passing -- it makes it tougher for consumers to declare bankruptcy and wipe out their credit-card debts. The credit card companies are wildly in favor of this, of course (I'd have more sympathy for them if they didn't so avidly market high-interest cards to people with marginal credit histories). The bill has now gotten tangled up in crossfire between factions in the abortion wars. The Bush Impeachment Countdown has an intriguing Machiavellian explanation for what's happening.
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