Salon Blogs update
Posted on July 30, 2002 @ 10:30 in General
Pornographer's Picks on Salon Blogs is currently the second best read blog in their most read ranking. The blogs author describes the blog like this:
A subjective listing of excellent free and membership porn sites, as chosen by a pornographer, together with occasional musings on sex, the smut industry, or whatever else I feel like rambling about. Some of these links may make me money when you click on them, but the links will always be what they claim to be, and the best of what's out there. Oh yeah! Clicking on any links provided will likely result in explicit sexual content, so consider yourself warned.
Well, it shouldn't be all that surprising when you think about it, but lil' innocent me never expected this kind of blog: most of the heady stuff that I've seen out there on blogs was of the rather personal kind. I can see two sides to this blog for Salon. Salon's own Sex section operates on the premise of literary, intellectual, arty nudes and titillation. That doesn't necessarily mean that their content is literary, classy and arty, but with it being published by Salon it can at least claim to be so. The Pornographer's Picks blog in many ways nicely complements that content with links that don't require Salon's kind of intellectual effort on the reader's part.
On the other hand, Salon could feel not entirely at ease with this kind of content being published under their umbrella, although right now it seems innocent enough. The easy way out here of course is for Salon to disclaim any responsibility for the bloggers' content, but that would make the integration of the blogs with the Salon site (that I argued for before) all the more difficult. The Pornographer's Picks blog poses an interesting question to Salon that I believe it wouldn't pose to say, Blogger or Userland, if it were hosted there.
By the way... I don't know if you have to click through a Salon Terms of Service Agreement when you install the software, but a brief search of the site, especially the Salon Blogs section didn't turn up anything. Oh, and the link for the Online Help System for the blog section tries to connect to localhost. Most of the sections' sidebars now have a link to Salon Blogs in them, so that's at least progress.
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