Salon is a progressive online magazine, with content updated each weekday. Part of Salon Media Group (OTCBB: SLNM), it was launched in 1995. It was founded by David Talbot, who first served as CEO of Salon Media Group from 1995 to 1999, and serves as its current CEO.^[1] It focuses on U.S. politics and current affairs, and on reviews and articles about music, books and films.^[2][3][4]

Salon's headquarters is located west of downtown San Francisco, California. As of November 2010, its editor-in-chief is Kerry Lauerman. His predecessor Joan Walsh stepped down from that position in November 2010 but remained as editor at large.^[5]

Content and coverage[link]

Salon magazine covers a variety of topics. It has reviews and articles about music, books, and films. It also has articles about "modern life", including relationships, friendships and human sexual behavior. It covers technology, with a particular focus on the free software/open source movement.

In 2008, Salon launched the interactive initiative Open Salon, a social content site/blog network for its readers.

Responding to the question "how far do you go with the tabloid sensibility to get readers?", former Salon.com editor-in-chief David Talbot said:

Is Salon more tabloid-like? Yeah, we've made no secret of that. I've said all along that our formula here is that we're a smart tabloid. If by tabloid what you mean is you're trying to reach a popular audience, trying to write topics that are viscerally important to a readership, whether it's the story about the mother in Houston who drowned her five children or the story on the missing intern in Washington, Chandra Levy.^[6]

Staff and contributors[link]

Regular contributors include the political opinion writers Glenn Greenwald and Alex Pareene; political analyst Steve Kornacki and David Sirota; critics Laura Miller and Andrew O'Hehir; pop-culture columnist Mary Elizabeth Williams; aviation columnist Patrick Smith; Tracy Clark-Flory writing on feminist and gender topics; advice columnist Cary Tennis; and economics writer Andrew Leonard.

David Talbot is founder and original editor-in-chief. He has served several stints as CEO,^[7] most recently replacing Richard Gingras who left to join Google as head of news products in July 2011.^[8] Kerry Lauerman is the editor-in-chief. Gail Williams manages The WELL. Norman Blashka is the CFO and VP of Operations.

History[link]

Salon was founded by David Talbot^[9] and was first published in 1995. It purchased the virtual community The WELL in April 1999, and made its initial public offering of Salon.com on the NASDAQ stock exchange on June 22 of that year.

Salon Premium, a pay-to-view (online) content subscription was introduced on April 25, 2001. The service signed over 130,000 subscribers and staved off discontinuation of services. However, less than two years later, in November 2002, the company announced it had accumulated cash and non-cash losses of $80 million, and by February 2003 it was having difficulty paying its rent, and made an appeal for donations to keep the company running.

On October 9, 2003, Michael O'Donnell, the chief executive and president of Salon Media Group, said he was leaving the company after seven years because it was "time for a change." When he left, Salon.com had accrued $83.6 million in losses since its inception, and its stock traded for 5¢ on the OTC Bulletin Board. David Talbot, Salon's chairman and editor-in-chief at the time, became the new chief executive. Elizabeth "Betsy" Hambrecht, then Salon's chief financial officer, became the president.

In July 2008, Salon launched Open Salon, a "social content site" and "curated blog network".^[10] It was nominated for a 2009 National Magazine Award.^[11] in the category "best interactive feature."

On June 10, 2011, Salon closed its online chat board Table Talk. While there was heartfelt sentiment from the board's first manager about Table Talk closing, Salon.com has not yet given an official reason why they ended this section of their site.^[12]

Business model and operations[link]

Aspects of the Salon.com site offerings, ordered by advancing date:

• Free content, around 15 new articles posted per-day, revenues wholly derived from in-page advertisements.
  • Per-day new content was reduced for a time.
• Salon Premium subscription. Approximately 20% of new content made available to subscribers only. Other subscription benefits included free magazines and ad-free viewing. Larger, more conspicuous ad units introduced for non-subscribers.
• A hybrid subscription model. Readers now can read content by viewing a 15-second full screen advertisement to earn a "day pass" or gain access by subscribing to Salon Premium.
• After Salon Premium subscriptions declined from about 100,000 to 10,000 it was rebranded in 2011 as Salon Core subscriptions featuring a different mix of benefits.^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

	San Francisco Bay Area portal
	Companies portal
	Internet portal
	Journalism portal

• Salon website
• Open Salon
• Timeline
• Salon.com stock (SLNM.OB) historical performance
• Salon buys The WELL
• The WELL
• Interview with Salon editor David Talbot at Journalismjobs.com

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Nobukazu Takemura
Background information
Born	(1968-08-28) 28 August 1968 (age 43) Hirakata, Osaka Japan
Origin	Hirakata, Osaka Japan
Genres	Jazz, Ambient, D&B, Chamber music, electronic glitch
Occupations	Musician, DJ
Website	Nobukazu Takemura Official site

Nobukazu Takemura (竹村延和 Takemura Nobukazu) is a Japanese musician whose style has run from jazz to house to drum and bass to chamber music to electronic glitch within less than a decade. Born in Hirakata, Osaka in August 1968, he became interested in punk and New Wave music when young. At high school, after a record store job that exposed him to Jazz and Hip hop, he had regular gigs as a battle DJ.

Career[link]

In 1990, Takemura founded Audio Sports with Yamatsuka Eye (of The Boredoms) and Aki Onda. Their first album, Era of Glittering Gas, was released in 1992 (after which Onda subsequently took control of the project), the same year as Takemura's first solo album, under the name DJ Takemura. He has also released material with Spiritual Vibes (since 1993) and as Child's View (since 1994). He is currently paired with Childisc vocalist/composer Aki Tsuyuko under the touring name of Assembler.

He founded the Lollop and Childisc labels ; his voluminous releases, remixes, and collaborations make a comprehensive discography difficult, and his music often defies any easy categorization. He emerged in the US after the release of Scope on the Thrill Jockey label in 1999, an album that features delicate melodies blossoming from oceans of white noise and staccato electronics.

His unique and complex approach to melody and instrumentation has generated a catalog of collaborations with critically acclaimed artists including Issey Miyake, Zu, Steve Reich, DJ Spooky, Yo La Tengo, and Tortoise.

Takemura was responsible for the sound design of Sony's robotic dog AIBO.^[1]

Partial discography[link]

Singles and EPs[link]

• Hoping For The Sun - 1993 (Mo' Wax, MW 012) 12"
• For Tomorrow - 1994 (Toy's Factory, TFCC-88311) CD
• The Scenery Of S.H. - 1995 (Lollop, LR 010) 12"
• Sablé & Grill EP - 1998 (Childisc, CHEP-002/CHCD-005) 12"/CD
• Meteor - 1999 (Thrill Jockey, thrill 12.13) 12"
• Sign - 2000 (Thrill Jockey, thrill 12.20) 12"/2xCD
• Picnic / Oyasumi - 2001 (Bottrop-Boy, B-BOY 004) 7"
• Mahou No Hiroba - 2001 (Childisc, TKCA-72263) CD
• Mimic Robot - 2002 (Thrill Jockey, thrill 12.25) 12"
• Hiking / Viking - 2002 (Bottrop-Boy, B-BOY 008) 7"
• Recursion EP - 2002 (Childisc, CHEP-011) 12"
• Animate EP - 2002 (Childisc, CHEP-013) 12"

Albums[link]

• Child's View - 1994 (Bellissima! Records/Toy's Factory, TFCC-88312)
• Child's View Remix - 1995 (Toy's Factory, TFCC-88205)
• Child & Magic - 1997 (Warner Music Japan, WPC6-8399)
• Funfair - 1999 (Bubblecore Records, BC-022)
• Scope - 1999 (Thrill Jockey, thrill 068)
• Milano -For Issey Miyake Men By Naoki Takizawa - 1999 (Warner Music Japan, WPC6-10017)
• Finale -For Issey Miyake Men By Naoki Takizawa - 1999 (Warner Music Japan, WPC6-10062)
• Hoshi No Koe - 2001 (Thrill Jockey, thrill 094)
• Water's Suite - 2002 (Extreme, XLTD 005)
• Animate - 2002 (Childisc, CHCD-030)
• Assembler 1 - 2002 (Childisc, CHCD-031)
• Songbook - 2003 (Bubblecore Records, BC-041)
• 10th - 2003 (Thrill Jockey, thrill 118)
• Assembler 2 - 2003 (Thrill Jockey, thrill 123)
• Kobito No Kuni (Unreleased Tracks ~1999) - 2007 (Moonlit, CMCD-002)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Web Page (under construction)

Christophe Philippe Charles (born 1951) is a Haitian poet. Born in Port-au-Prince, Charles received a philosophy degree from the University of Haiti. One of his best-known poems is Désastre (1975).

References[link]

• Schutt-Ainé, Patricia; Staff of Librairie Au Service de la Culture (1994). Haiti: A Basic Reference Book. Miami, Florida: Librairie Au Service de la Culture. p. 101. ISBN 0-9638599-0-0. 

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