Odds and ends
Those of you who were ready to write Salon off as dead a few weeks ago can now stop your deathwatches. We announced some new financing last week. Salon now has over 60,000 current subscribers in the subscription program we launched two years ago. (I still have a folder full of e-mails telling us what an awful mistake that was, no one would ever subscribe, didn't we understand that nobody would ever pay for content online?) We also have a 72 percent renewal rate. Thanks to every single one of you who has signed up. Hell, just think of the consternation you're spreading among the goons over at Free Republic. ("Harder to get rid of than venereal warts," one disappointed neanderthal over there posted.)
This blog has been devoted exclusively to war ruminations lately. It's been hard to keep up with anything else.
John Robb's recent analyses of the unraveling of the Bush/Rumsfeld war plan have been extremely valuable. John, who runs UserLand -- the company that produces the software Salon Blogs runs on -- is a former military guy.
Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo blog has been great lately as well. Josh wrote one of the definitive pieces about Rumsfeld's war with his own generals at the Pentagon. This has been surprising news to many Americans, but Salon subscribers got introduced to this strange conflict nine months ago, in Aug. 2002.
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