Open Salon is a social content site we hope to officially launch later this year. We've been hosting a lively private beta test for several months now, with about 1,300 or our closest friends. We're now pleased to open the door for everyone else.

What, precisely, can you do here? After… Read full post »

Tomorrow we'lll take a break from all the usual Open fare to spotlight some of the dazzling ghost stories that have materialized on the site in recent months -- an hopefully new ones, too. So if you've got your own true ghost story you want to share, post it in… Read full post »

After airing the complete interview with Salon's Joan Walsh on Friday, Bill O'Reilly and crew aired a sliced and diced version in his June 15 "Talking Points" segment (served later with a heaping, complimentary side of fawning Juan Williams).

Look: Spinning video isn't that hard. … Read full post »

 It's a "Slumdog" sweep! Look at all those adorable little children! 

That's a rather lovely way of ending this little shindig. Thanks so much to all of you for chiming in and contributing, for Thomas and Marybeth for helping me, and to all those stars in Hollywood, shining so brightly and… Read full post »

How the Birther Movement (explained pretty well here) captured the angry right-wing imagination remains a mystery to me. But poke around on any conservative political site  -- or listen to talk radio -- and you'll soon find a fervent army of true believers as determined as they are zany.  J… Read full post »

If you were  kicking it with your socialist  or illegal immigrant friends today you might've missed the launch of Fox Nation, the Fox News online community for people "who believe in the United States of America and its ideals in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Em… Read full post »

Mad Typist stole my thunder: I agree, that scene in "The Ring," when she crawls out of the TV, had me (and everyone else in the theater) screaming in terror. You saw it coming a mile away, but that almost made it worse (and made the stakes for/… Read full post »

For tomorrow, help us dissect the most fascinating facts about the election. (Note: I know, I know. Some of you will claim hangovers, fatigue, or that you're trying to move on. I don't believe you. I know a bunch of political junkies when I see it.)

Suggested format: 

Title: [Your fact… Read full post »

Update: Gets these posted by Saturday, Nov. 15! We'll select some for inclusion with the Salon list. KL

Salon launched its Sexiest Man Living! list two years ago, bolding asserting that "not all turn-ons start with a spray-on tan," and offering a corrective to People's annual celebration of a… Read full post »

That's what's left of my parents' charming, windowed back porch after a tornado blew through their small Midwestern town Wednesday night, tearing off roofs, downing giant oak trees, and miraculously not harming a single person. In a few short seconds, a funnel cloud blew past, tore up the po… Read full post »

Holidays invariably cause us to think of our great loves, don't they? We'll be lost in the mindless ritual of it all -- cooking the stuffing,  sending out cards, buying a gift for someone we barely know -- and then be stopped cold, blinking amid the neon, wondering why any of… Read full post »

FYI -- pass on to anyone you think might be a good fit:

Art Director / Senior Designer--SALON

Salon is looking for an innovative, energetic Art Director / Senior Designer to join our small, talented design team and help design new products, new features and support daily production design. You… Read full post »

Well, what a dark day this turned out to be. Just hours after we heard of Farrah Fawcett's sad but expected passing, we've heard that Michael Jackson has died. It was a surprise, but perhaps not wholly unexpected. We've been watching a slow, painful arc to Jackson's story unfold for several… Read full post »

In recent months, as I've turned my attention to Salon and helping prepare it for a redesign and many new features, Thomas Rogers has nimbly overseen Open Salon, carefully choosing Editor's Picks and consistently building fascinating and entertaining covers for Open Salon. It can be a tricky, content… Read full post »

So the chatter in my office (sad, sad little office) is the pending very special announcement  on Monday's broadcast of  unlikely TLC buzzmachine, "Jon And Kate Plus 8." I watch an embarrasing amount of TV. I have never watched this show. The premise is daunting enough that I think I'd rath… Read full post »

If you're a film lover or an animal lover, or both, you've probably seen the glowing reviews,  read and listened to the interviews, or been riveted by the resulting news coverage.  You're probably so on board with the Louie Psihoyos' film "The Cove," that you're ready to call your Congress… Read full post »

Conservatives and libertarians of a certain stripe will take to the streets tomorrow -- urged and prodded by Fox News and right-wing pundits -- to protest the Obama administration's tax policies. What are they rebelling against? What've you got?! The protest appears pulled together by a grabbag of&n… Read full post »

We're rolling out integrated advertising on all pages today, for Open Salon and its members, to help you start profiting off of all your fine work here. You need to join Google's AdSense ad network to launch the ads and start earning money off of them. To do that, sign up… Read full post »

From Bill O'Reilly's personal site this afternoon. Read closely. Now he's REALLY gone too far with the personal attacks!

The boss lady braved a visit to Fox this afternoon to try and reason with Bill O'Reilly. She responded to a request for an interview, which he always tapes… Read full post »

Attention film fans! We want you to weigh in on one of the summer's big cultural questions: "Bruno," good for the gays or not?

In one corner, in Salon, the brilliant and debonair  David Rakoff thinks he's bad, very bad. "Baron Cohen's Brüno is a gay minstrel, in… Read full post »

We're  fascinated and concerned by reports of crowd behavior at recent McCain/Palin rallies. We'd like to see it for ourselves -- and have it monitored -- and suspect you do, too.

So: Calling all would-be Michael Moores! Welcome, wannabe Alex Gibneys! Upload your footage  from any rallies… Read full post »

The National Magazine Awards are given out by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), and they're largely regarded as the Pulitzers of the magazine world. ASME announced the nominations today, and Salon has received a nod in the Interactive Feature category for some feature that goes by the… Read full post »

Occasionally in the past we've appealed to Open members to "share" -- through the DIGG, Del.ic.ious, Facebook or Reddit icons in the top lefthand corner of every post -- certain select posts. Before we do that again, I thought it would help explain why we ask.

These social programs --… Read full post »

As we eagerly set our DVRs to record HBO's "In Treatment," which starts its new season this Sunday, we're wondering if any of the doctors or mental health experts in the Open audience will be tuning in -- especially you purveyors of the talking cure -- and be willing to offer… Read full post »

(Images from the News of the World.)

The photo above is causing quite the ruckus. Michael Phelps admits that, yes, it's real (and apparently happened in November). The Times (UK) says it "could spell disaster," and its near hysterical reaction is not alone. Me? Maybe I'm an incorrigible… Read full post »