Ken Layne: Did the NYT buy Salon?

Salon.com has no ads this morning. The wide top banner, held for a week by that new Jack Nicholson movie, now promotes a Salon writer. Beyond the personals box seen on many sites, no ads at all.

Ken goes on to speculate that perhaps the site is closing or being bought. In an update, after noticing a Boston Globe ad at the top of the site, he asks whether the NYT has bought Salon.

I think that he may be on to something here. If they have been bought they would need to shift over to the new ad server, as well as do a couple of other practical things that may require them to suspend existing advertising campaigns.