"If you haven't checked out Salon's spiffy new upgraded article directory, you're missing out. In its seven-year history Salon has published tens of thousands of articles on every subject under the sun. The directory helps you find your way through this. You'll also find a nifty "most popular topics" feature at the bottom of the directory's main page.

This is good news.  Trying to find old articles on Salon has always been a hit-or-miss affair.  Hopefully this will help.

On the other hand, apologies are in order for the state of our search engine, which actually indexes Salon well but does not handle multi-word searches well -- and that's the most common kind of search. We're still working on it; in the meantime, Google does a fantastic job of searching Salon, as it always has."

Seriously....fix the searching!

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"Digital technology and the Internet can empower artists to reach a worldwide audience and to build upon each other's ideas and imagination with extremely low production and distribution costs. Many software developers, through both the open source software initiative and the free software movement, have long taken advantage of these facts to create a vibrant community of shared software that benefits creators and the public. "

Literal "Open Source Music".  Cool!

"Why should open source be limited to computer programs? The same logic could unleash a world of creative, personalized music."

Continuing the discussion on the idea of "Open Source Music", I found an old article from 1999 on Salon that discusses the concept along the same lines as the Bootleg Culture article from a few days ago.  Interesting read.

""Each of the projects involved in this initiative have committed to remaining independent and not-for-profit, this is a key requirement for participation as we want this to be a community supported effort, for the community by the community." - Steve Manzuik, founder and co-moderator of VulnWatch. "

With the recent aquisition of SecurityFocus by Symantec, there has been plenty of concern about potential corporate influence over what has been, up until recently, a well managed community resource.  The Internetworked Security Information Services initiative ties together several already existing security resources in an attempt to provide a community resource that is dedicated to serving the community, and not to making money.  I'm a fan of all the components of this initiative, so hopefully they'll mesh well together and make each component more useful.

"Back in 1970, Hilary and Kathy were 14 years old and best friends in Washington, DC. Then Kathy moved to Tehran. They wrote to each other pretty often. Last year, Kathy and Hilary got together and reread their letters. They found them mildy amusing and thought others might think so too."

I've been enjoying this a lot. 

(btw, I'm using Radio Express now to post most of my stuff, so the Title will link to the site in question.  Its a little saner that way)

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