August

This week Salon takes its annual summer break, known to the editorial staff as “dark week” — a week in which we update the site with fewer articles. It’s a chance during the dog days of August for those of us who basically work around-the-clock most of the year to catch our breaths and take a real vacation. I’m doing the same — though I’ll keep updating this blog, perhaps a little less regularly. Don’t worry, though; Salon will have a new cover story every day, the wires will continue to be updated, and of course the blogs will keep rolling.

If you stay tuned you can catch my cover story tomorrow — a double book review, of John Motavalli’s “Bamboozled at the Revolution” and David Weinberger’s “Small Pieces Loosely Joined” — that uses those books as a chance to look at the state of the Net in general. I’ve tried to write (at least) one such piece a year.