Salon.com has always been a great site. I’ve enjoyed their Tech section in particular partly due to the writing of Scott Rosenberg – managing editor of Salon.
In the past year, Salon has slowly slipped from my regular morning routine, generally in favour of independently published weblogs. My routine currently includes, among others, Slashdot, Wired, News.com, Scripting.com, Reinvented.net, Zeldman.com, The Register, MetaFilter, Signal vs. Noise, and Kottke.org.
I’m glad to see Salon jumping into the personal publishing world with both feet with their new Radio Userland-based Salon Blogs service. I’m particularly pleased that Scott Rosenberg himself is leading by example with a weblog of his own.
I think the most interesting part of this will be a group of people attempting to use blogs to build a community. Beyond the “Knowledge Sharing” and the “Community Network Leverage”,.. there should be a real community that will build within these blogs… and IMHO, this scenario is much more preferable to a message board community because we can do away with moderators, spammers, etc… because in this blogging community you will have to build your reputation and until you do, nobody will have to look at you.
In other words, you have to say something worthwhile.
I usually try to avoid linking to ultra-popular links that are on every web log and site on the web.