Online journals, both scholarly and personal, make the Web a place for studying deep subjects and sometimes-shallow people. (Not that we're judging anyone.)
info.lib.uh.edu/wj/webjour.html
This site provides access to dozens of scholarly journals whose content is available for free online, from the Astrophysical Journal (www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ) to the World Wide Web Journal of Biology (epress.com/w3jbio).
Read highbrow research and essays about the effect of the Internet on culture, and other snooty stuff. In a very un-Internet sort of way, the site is a monthly publication and the latest issue was late, when we checked.
Online publishing itself is the focus of the scholars weighing in here. They examine the evolution of electronic books, the joys of self-publishing on the Web and warnings that, however beloved bits and bytes become, "paper isn't going away."
Not mine. This is one of many places where anyone can keep a personal online journal or read those of other people: "I hate Jen and she hates me. I hope her demeaning sarcasm turns off every guy she meets and she becomes a very lonely spinster." Wait till Jen gets a hold of this.
Go here to really get into online diaries. The site gives out awards for the best diary entries and has links to diary sites all over the Web, including celebrity diaries. There's one purporting to be by Melanie Griffith (www.melaniegriffith.com/in2mec/intimacy_firstpeek.html), whose latest entry plugs a Santa Monica car dealership.
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