Since we've been on the Net, SALON has received accolades in both print and online publications. We're thrilled with the feedback! Here's a sampling of what's been said.

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• Salon is one of the few must-read e-zines on the Web. This is one of the classiest stops you can make when you tour the Web.
  -PC Magazine

• Salon's savvy blend of old and new media strengths has made it an online journalism pacesetter.
  -American Journalism Review

• Salon is a rather sassy slice of contemporary life presented in a handsome and readable format. But Salon does not stop with good writing or sharp commentary; the magazine has some 2,500 lively forums in which readers contribute their thoughts on topics that include Zippergate and motherhood, Internet culture and cut-rate travel.
  -New York Times

• But surprise, surprise, the Internet - generally a repository of hurried and otherwise bad writing - is fast becoming the place to find top-notch travel writing. Leading the pack is Wanderlust, the travel component to Salon, an online literary magazine produced in San Francisco.
  -Time magazine

• "It's a beautiful, elegiac piece, written by a master. So where did I read it? In the New Yorker? The Atlantic Monthly? The New York Review of Books? The Times Literary Supplement? Answer: none of the above. I read it in Salon, the online magazine which is doing for Net publishing what the New Yorker once did for weekly magazines.
  -London Observer

• Surf no more. Here are the most entertaining URLs in the world. Best Literary 'Zine Salon. The most consistent roster of hip, smart luminaries gather here - most notably Anne Lamott and her "Word by Word" column. More fun than most publishing cocktail parties.
  - Entertainment Weekly's "30 Beautiful Sites"

• Five-time champ, PC Magazine Online Top 100.
  - PC Magazine Online

• Combative, opinionated and irreverent, Salon is an online magazine with bite. Salon has managed to attract a roster of top-level writers and commentators that fills "old media" intellectual powerhouses like the New Yorker with byte envy.
  - The Guardian

• Since Salon Magazine began publishing online two years ago, readers have flocked to the award-winning site and created one of the most vibrant interactive communities on the Web.
  - Adobe Magazine

• But for those of us who've always considered ourselves (as Adrienne Rich put it) 'outlaws from the institution of motherhood' - real women who happen to have kids but still don't spend a majority of our waking hours thinking about stomach crunches, Mothers Who Think is a welcome addition to the growing family of maternal feminists on the Web.
  - Ariel Gore, Founder of Hip Mama for The Web Magazine

• Salon Wanderlust selected as Lycos Top 5%.
  - Lycos, September 1997

• The ELLE 25. From everybody's latest darling to the must-read book or the CD you can't stop playing -- get ahead of the curve with our fourth annual Legends of the Fall.... Salon is a zany, digital version of the Algonquin Round Table. It's essentially gonzo journalism; dispatches from an eclectic group of writers.
  -ELLE

• The result, a literate but decidedly not stuffy mix of interviews, lifestyle features and cultural commentary, hit its mark.
  -People

• Salon solidifying as others fade away. As evidence, consider the content of Salon, an ahead-of-the-curve, culturally adroit mag that has extended its lead over the pack. Take popular culture seriously with on-target coverage of current music, without pandering to the average, two-beats-too-slow reader of Rolling Stone.
  -The Boston Globe

• The e-zine with the most widespread praise is San Francisco-based Salon.
  -The Los Angeles Times

• The ultra-savvy Salon offers a daily dose of news, views, trends and more.
  -Home PC, June 1997

• Salon has the best writing online, consistently, daily. Refreshingly, it is rarely self-referential, or even Web-referential. And someone please nominate author and Salon columnist Anne Lamott for a Pulitzer Prize! If you don't, I will.
  -Yahoo! Internet Life Five Star Award

• Salon has the smarts and finesse of The New Yorker or Harper's Magazine without killing the trees. With only a handful of sites out there that value substance over style, Salon is a breath of literate air in this computer-crazed climate.
  -New York Post

• One of three sites Soledad O'Brien (host of MSNBC's The Site) likes to visit: "Salon updates daily with a wide variety of articles, including breaking news, music reviews and columns by top writers."
  -Essence Magazine

• In their look at the magazines that have a good shot at being around to ring in 1998, The Wall Street Journal praised Salon by saying it "falls somewhere between People and Vanity Fair" and that "Salon displays some real marketing saavy."
  -The Wall Street Journal

• Salon provides a refreshing break from the sloppy, shallow or self-indulgent writing that predominates on the Internet. No wonder it was named Time Magazine's Best Web Site of 1996.
  -PC Week

• 1997 Webby Award Winner: Best Online Magazine
  -The Webby Awards, Sponsored by The Web Magazine

• Time Magazine Names SALON "Best Web Site of 1996." Wanderers in the wastelands of the Web found refuge in SALON. While many have tried, few have succeeded in building a truly compelling magazine (or 'zine) on the World Wide Web. SALON, however, with its mix of daily articles built around a weekly theme, has managed to move to the top of the Web's short must-read list.
  - Time Magazine

• One of the Best Web Sites. Kind of a Web New Yorker, this magazine features writers such as Anne Rice, James Carville and Ian Shoales.
  - Business Week

• As a media pet, [Slate] has been outmaneuvered by Salon, named site of the year by Time.
  -Vanity Fair

• There is culturally literate life on the Web, and you can tap into it at Salon. Turn to this Web 'zine for its regular contributors (including James Carville probing politics and Anne Lamott reflecting on single motherhood) plus reviews, profiles and decidely nontechie tete-a-tetes.
  -Glamour

• Take Salon, for example, a web-based publication with an eclectic mix of articles, movie reviews, book reviews and columns from some top-notch writers. (Former Clinton advisor James Carville is a regular contributor.) It is one of a short list of sites that makes it interesting to log on to the Internet.
  -Hartford Advocate

• With only a handful of sites out there that value substance over style, Salon is a breath of literate air in this computer-crazed world.
  - Wired

• Salon is the highbrow e-zine for critical culture vultures. Daily columns on the media, music, new books, and the news give you a reason to check out Salon every day. Original reviews, articles, and interviews about society, art, literature, film, and more - posted every Monday - are guaranteed to keep you engaged. Salon is a sane and classy stop in your Web tour. - PC Magazine

• Salon has evolved an on-screen style that is smart and literate and inflected with sufficient attitude and irreverence so as not to seem a mere print journal recycled onto the screen.
  - New York Times Magazine

• My choice: I would have awarded 'Cool Site of the Year' to Salon, a smart, elegant, Web-based magazine that appeals to the digital intelligentsia and neophytes alike.... Indeed, the Table Talk section of Salon is an atmosphere that no other Web site has been able to produce quite so skillfully. (Applause, please.)
  - Susan Gregory Thomas, U.S. News & World Report

• The web page you're going to here is associated with "Salon" magazine, one of the few web magazines that actually merits reading on a daily basis.
  -America Online "Delights"

• Some of the best writing on writing can be found in Salon, a spirited on-line magazine with biting reviews and media critiques by the likes of Ian Shoales and the brilliant Gary Kamiya, and other touches like oddball tour diaries by Anne Rice and a monthly political column from James Carville.
  - Details

• Salon, a literary, political and cultural events Web journal launched in late 1995, is a veritable 24-hours-a-day digital book festival.
  - Publisher's Weekly

• Salon defied the supposed cyberdeath of the written word with its literary magazine.... blending well-known writers with thoughtful chat from their readers, they make immediate discussion of cultural issues de rigueur.
  - Entertainment Weekly

• The Webzine Salon has one of the best issues of it's brief life. Laura Miller artfully blends the kernels of two new books about suburbia into a short, powerful piece as effective as a boxer's jab.
  - The Boston Globe

• Salon has established itself as one of the first Web sites to successfully fuse the old and the new -- in this case, the literary and the digital.
  - Jon Katz, Hotwired's The Netizen

• Created by a gaggle of newspaper folk, Salon... isn't one of those gaudy Web magazines built to showcase interactive graphics, animation, and Java scripts. Rather, it's simply a good magazine that happens to be on the Web.
  - Computer Currents

• I don't know whether the creators of Salon would like hearing their site described as lovely, but it is. The design fits the label. Have a calvados or two, then gather your thoughts while images float on their backgrounds and fade sweetly at the edges.
  - Prodigy's Living Digital

• Substance, intelligence, grace, and wit: All these qualities appear rarely in a publication -- let alone one on the stylish, glossy Web. But SALON neatly bundles them into one provocative package... SALON elevates good writing over digital hip, no question: It's far more stimulating than a big dose of hype downed with Java.
  - NetGuide Magazine

• SALON (is) probably the most sophisticated of the Web sites that Slate will face... SALON offers the most consistently professional writing of the magazines. What's more, its content is mostly devoid of the introspective evangelizing about the wonders of the World Wide Web that characterizes many of its competitors.
  - San Francisco Chronicle

• There is such a thing as literacy on the Internet. SALON proves it.
  - Chicago Sun-Times Online

• One of the more intelligent examples of magazines that exist only on the Web... SALON has intelligent articles and reader interaction.
  - The New York Times CyberNavigator

• Some of the sharpest writing on the Net can be found at this site. If any webzine can claim to be the online stepchild of The New Yorker, bet on SALON.
  - Macworld

• Top shelf of the Web's high press.
  - Newsweek

• SALON is the sophisticated core of the emerging e-zine community of the Internet. Devoid of flash and MTV generation imagery, this e-zine stands as a beacon of literary thought on-line... If you ever have frequented a late night cafe and considered how it would be to sit and drink coffee with the circles of the literary and artistic elite, this is the closest thing you'll ever see in cyberspace.
  - Internet Professional Publishers Association

• ... this site threatens to become the Web's single best interactive magazine of news, analysis, ideas art and books. Right now it has some of the best writing found on the Net. Visually it is a joy to read.... Make this an ABSOLUTE MUST bookmark!
  - Brock Meeks' "Netwatch Top Ten"

• An electronic magazine (that) seeks civilized exchanges on the Internet.
  - The New York Times

• Of the current crop of on-line mags, my absolute favorite is SALON. This site is all a magazine should be: great features, fun columnists, insightful review -- you just have to get accustomed to clicking instead of flipping. SALON is beautifully executed and comprehensive in its coverage.
  - PC Magazine

• SALON is... an interesting and innovative Web site... stretching the boundaries of literature, graphics, criticism and culture.
  - Hotwired's Netizen

  

• Reminiscent of the Algonquin Roundtable, SALON has moved the medium while maintaining the message.... SALON truly is a beautiful site, replete with insightful commentary ranging from left to not-quite-right. Regardless of your cultural ideology, it's definitely worth taking the time to stop by and lend your voice to the discussion.
  - c|net, "best of the Web"

• Genuinely intriguing and intelligent.
  - Washington Post

• My favorite (Internet-only periodical) is SALON.... Unlike many Internet "zines," SALON pays competitive rates to writers and appears to get what it pays for.
  - Daniel Akst, Los Angeles Times

• SALON directly addresses an audience often overlooked by online culture - people whose primary interests lie beyond their computers.... SALON is clearly a site for people who read... a welcome respite from the tech-oriented nature of most online enterprises.
  - The Austin Chronicle

• SALON brings a refined and vibrant look at the arts, culture and society to the Web. More magazine than 'zine, this pub features top-notch talent and high-profile stories. A nice touch of refinement amongst the countless vacuous 'zines that litter the 'net. Rating: *****
  - Underground Online

• One of the best examples of Web design I've seen; a rare breath of fresh air... a very useful means for British readers to gain insight into American culture and politics... A happy mixture of editorial values brought from the print world and the participatory ideas of the Internet.
  - Sunday Independent (London)

• ... (One of) the better web-zines that it is chic to hit. SALON offers a safe haven for (baby boomers) unmoved by surfing metaphors... It concentrates on books, movies, television, music, and "ideas," all with an un-Suck-like seriousness and maturity.
  - The Economist

• SALON could become the first general-interest magazine to hit it big on the Web... This is a textbook example of how to do more with less... Table Talk is reader-driven content at its very best.
  - Interactive Publishing Alert

• The Write Stuff. Literary magazines are a dime a dozen, but SALON looks rich enough for a bookmark on your browser... and the simple graphics and larger-than-normal type size make downloading quick and reading easy for post-thirtysomething eyes.
  - Home PC Magazine

• Artfully presenting smart fare for smart people.
  - iGuide

• SALON is an optically perfect and thematically diverse independent magazine that takes full advantage of HTML.
  - Screen Multimedia (Germany)

• SALON could turn out to be the hottest, most important Web-zine since HotWired. From what I see so far, the end product is the finest of the new breed of Net-native magazines. It uses all the power of the Web links without falling into the trap of letting the design drive the magazine.
  - The San Jose Mercury News

• Elegant webzine... an on-line equivalent of The London Review of Books.
  - The Guardian (London)

• The quality writers, editors, and designers from the San Francisco Examiner have made David Talbot's on-line magazine the most talked-about literary site since the Algonquin roundtable.
  - SF Focus magazine

• SALON is a treat for literate Web surfers... Its execution seems well-nigh flawless, from the clean, stylish design (nothing is done merely for show) to the solid business plan (logical tie-in with Borders) to, of course, the compelling contents. SALON sets a high standard indeed. Don't miss it.
  - Convergence Communications' "Critique of the Week"

• The magazine is a sure-fire hit, full of everything you've come to expect from similar hard copy versions... Then too, it's got items not found in your coffee table edition: home shopping, back issues and Table Talk, where readers can chat with editors and writers... Great stuff in virtual or real time.
  - The Santa Cruz Sentinel

• Clean, crisp and inviting... an intellectual refuge on the Net in an interactive forum.
  - Infoseek "Cool Site"

• SALON's spare look is both processor-friendly and easy on the eye. In fact, placed in a Web of sites plagued with ill-conceived animations and obviously amateurish neon graphics, its simplicity makes it stand out.
  - MACWEEK

• The Web's hyperlinks turn out to be hype, unless you discover a gem of a site, such as www.salon1999.com, a true wonder of the 'Net because it has style and substance.
  - The Boston Herald

• Put this up on your laptop's screen when you leave it on the coffee table.
  - The Net

  

• Imagine a readable NY Review of Books edited by refugees from Vanity Fair, and presented with a feel for the screen rather than the page.
  - Excite!

• For stimulating reading... check out SALON. This site comes as close to an electronic version of Vanity Fair as you can get. It is presented in a clean, easy-to-read fashion with clever graphics and topical stories. What makes SALON even more interesting is its bulletin boards.
  - The Orlando Sentinel

• Perhaps you're one of those doubting masses who says there's nothing worthwhile on the Web... you have never seen the inside of SALON. The best magazine in America that happens to be published on the Internet, SALON covers an extremely wide variety of topics.... All are sharply written, none are boring.
  - Main Quad

• "This is the big question," said John Seabrook, The New Yorker's liaison to Cyberia. "Is there going to be a kind of journalism that takes advantage of the unique technical properties of hypertext?" In Mr. Seabrook's Web journeys, the one Webzine he holds in esteem is SALON.
  - The New York Observer

• Superb writing, graceful layout, and an inspired selection of story ideas....
  - Web Review

• One of the best start-up pixels rags I've found. The look and flavor of the publication is similar to Harper's and the headlines and graphics are right out of The New Yorker magazine.
  - CyberConch Review

• (A) magazine of books, arts and ideas dedicated to the power of the written word.
  - YAHOO "Cool Links"

• As the technology improves, and as more and more people join the Internet, SALON could become very serious competition. You won't find Gertrude and Alice B in attendance, but the Web's newest interactive literary get-together could prove just as lively.
  - HQ Australia

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