Salon is an interactive on-line "magazine of books, arts and ideas." This web site has articles on news, media, books, music, tv, and travel. "Inside Salon you'll find not only authors and thinkers, but a kinetic community of readers and kindred spirits eager to thrash out cultural issues." The site is organized like a print magazine although the page layout is similar to other on-line ‘zines with text in one narrow column and lots of white space. In addition, Salon has Table Talk, a forum for reader-generated on-line conversations that are associated with the articles. It is primarily a collection of articles, drawings, comics, and games that are all composed for use on the internet. Salon is updated once a week and old editions can be accessed from archives. The intestion of the site to be informative but also playful. It is more for reading and contributing enjoyment than for reference or pedagogical purposes. For the most part, Salon is self-contained, although they do have one page of outside links that are "Favorite Links." I think the intention of the creators was to keep browsers at this particular site. They want readers to enjoy the site like they would enjoy a magazine. They want the browsers to read the literature and then, if they wish, contribute to the on-line discussions.
Wanderlust is a sub-section within Salon. It is dedicated to "putting romance-- the 'unconquerable longing'--back into travel and the passion back into travel writing." It is a ‘thicker' area than the main Salon section because it is soley centered around the topic of travel. There are articles about traveling as well as a topics specifically posed for on-line discussion. The articles change weekly and merely have the common link of being related to the topic of travel. After they are displayed, articles are archived and organized by date, writer or geographical region. The intention of Wanderlust is to give a community of people (the readers of Salon) a location to read, write and converse about travel. They want to give the readers a place for celebrating the memories of "spontaneous romantic adventures."