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Online directory of historical and literary diarists

jayder — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:39:37 -0800

Diary Junction. "An internet resource for those interested in historical and literary diaries and diarists." Information pages on over five hundred diarists are included.

Nothing like a good Read.

adamvasco — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:18:20 -0800

Small is Beautiful - The best new journals. (via Guardian / Observer) selected by Stephanie Merritt. "Published out of tiny offices or even editors' apartments, funded by grants, donations or founders' savings, distributed by direct subscription or in selected independent bookshops, paying contributors little or nothing at all, these magazines have nevertheless attracted such eminent writers as to give them an international reputation far beyond their limited circulation."

"Dr. Freud gave me a narcissus." -Virginia Woolf

anotherpanacea — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:42:55 -0800

Why do we read diaries?

IBM Technical Journals Archive

Burhanistan — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:51:55 -0800

IBM Research and Technical Journals. Complete recent issues of IBM Research and Development Journal and Systems Journal as well as searchable archives.

In depth articles about Indonesia

Burhanistan — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:56:24 -0800

Indonesia is a semi-annual journal from Cornell devoted to the timely study of Indonesia's culture, history, government, economy, and society. It features original scholarly articles, interviews, translations, and book reviews. (note AdBlocker strips the page banner) There's a fee for current issues but back issues are free.

Online research source list

LobsterMitten — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:17:08 -0800

100+ authoritative research sources that are available online. Various topics, real info. Think of it as a kind of do-it-yourself AskMe, or you know, a research library.(via Making Light)

Lord Byron, Seen Through the Eyes of a Friend

jayder — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:44:01 -0800

The Diary of John Cam Hobhouse. Hobhouse ^(Wiki) (1786-1869) was a close friend of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, and "Hobby-O's" diary contains a vivid account of Hobhouse's friendship and travels with Byron. As editor Peter Cochran writes: "Educated at Westminster and Trinity College Cambridge, [Hobhouse] travelled east with Byron in 1809, was Best Man at Byron’s wedding in 1815, travelled across Switzerland in Byron’s company in 1816 after the separation, around Rome with Byron in 1817, and lived with Byron in Venice in the same year. He met Byron at Pisa again in 1822, after Byron’s facetious poem on his imprisonment in Newgate, My Boy Hobby-O, had almost terminated their friendship. As a member of the London Greek Committee he encouraged Byron on his last journey in 1823; and had he insisted, Byron’s memoirs would almost certainly not have been destroyed in 1824." (Memoirs which, in hindsight, are considered a "missing masterpiece.") Also read Hobhouse's account of Byron's funeral.

Does it matter whether you think this is Best of the Web?

Gyan — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:49:20 -0800

Reviewing peer review.

So, what do you think?

owhydididoit — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:16:57 -0800

Some online journals, such as Ecology and Society, operate independently. Others are hosted collectively by interests like Copernicus Publications. Online peer review is becoming popular.

LJ tarts itself up, puts on high heels...

insomnia_lj — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:31:46 -0800

LiveJournal adopts banner ads. SixApart has broken a longstanding promise/agreed-upon principle (recently deleted) and is adding banner ads to the service, which will be visible to the general public and approximately 95% of their users. Last year's April Fool's joke suddenly not very amusing anymore. Is SixApart's bubble a bit overinflated?