Article by Janelle Brown discussing issues on the use of volunteers to manage a site's online community. "The volunteers may feel good about giving their time, but the for-profit online communities are clearly profiting from those volunteers' services."

During the making of the HBO special "The Trial of James Earl Ray, " I tried to persuade Pepper that the conspiracy to kill King had its origins in the White Supremacist movement. Admittedly, there were FBI agents, and police officers, sympathetic to ...

Christopher Kelly delved into Cruise's sexual ambiguity in certain roles, and his vulnerability, as being particularly appealing to gays. I submit, however, that those qualities are universally appealing. Tom Cruise is Everyman, as every man would lik...

Janelle Brown's article: "Google, a favorite search engine of the plugged-in crowd, uses its $25 million in venture funding to launch a site almost unchanged from the "test" version."

Fans have already embraced new music-distribution technologies. Musicians can fight them or join them. [Salon.com]

Salon's complete coverage of Linux and the Open Source Movement

"[P3P] has been both lauded as the answer to everyone's privacy worries and castigated as a Trojan horse that will divert public attention from real problems. The truth is, it's neither. It's merely a potentially nifty tool that might help ensure priv...