{"id":19,"date":"2002-07-26T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2002-07-26T15:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2002\/07\/26\/85285211\/"},"modified":"2002-07-26T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2002-07-26T15:04:50","slug":"85285211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/26\/85285211\/","title":{"rendered":"85285211"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salon Magazine is joining the crowd and trying to get its readers to create blogs. They call it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/blogs\/index.html\">Salon Blogs<\/a>, but there isn&rsquo;t much detail about how the community is going to work&#8230; It mostly looks like a partnership with the blog publishing system called Radio Userland, but you still have to pay for the software after a 30-day trial.<\/p>\n<p>Will this &laquo; community &raquo; be enough to give Salon the boost it needs? A year ago, I had decided to pay for a Salon membership. I couldn&rsquo;t stand the idea of reading the magazine with big ads popping up and I thought I would encourage what I considered to be great writing and editorial. I had been reading their online magazine since the very beginning, when they were just another start up, right next to my office in San Francisco. I&rsquo;ve always loved their movie and book reviews but they seem to publish less and less of them now. I don&rsquo;t like the direction the magazine has taken since September 11th, and their attempts at raising money have been more desperate than inventive. My membership is expiring in a few days. I wonder: should I renew or not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salon Magazine is joining the crowd and trying to get its readers to create blogs. They call it Salon Blogs, but there isn&rsquo;t much detail about how the community is going to work&#8230; It mostly looks like a partnership with the blog publishing system called Radio Userland, but you still have to pay for the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/26\/85285211\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">85285211<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}