Salon Media Group and The Well Group, Inc. recently announced that the WELL now will be under the ownership of The Well Group, Inc., a private investment group composed of long-time WELL members. The purchase marks the first major online business taken private by users of the business itself.

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Alan Turner, landscape architect
The first conference I visit is News, which is mainly about what's going on around The WELL, but also has pointers to interesting news of the world. Then I move on to Media, which covers the public pulse so well I don't have to watch TV: the conference members there do it for me. For fun I like the Words conference. There's always a game or punfest going on, or some idiosyncratic discussion about punctuation. [See more people, more suggestions...]