Of course, the power of the World Wide Web, is in its name. This web allows experts on each subject to provide deep content on their subject of expertise and be part of a greater whole with experts in other subjects by interconnected links. The web structure can be a curse from the organizational standpoint. My view is that the organizational problem of the WWW is more workable than trying to maintain broad content in one organized site. This has been borne out to some extent by the fact that many of the sites attempting to provide breadth first content have not been successful.
Information is available in several places and in several forms on the Internet.
Email which is probably the oldest use of the Internet, is still a powerful way to gather information. One of the problems with email is conveying emotion in print. One way to receive email on a particular topic is to subscribe to a mailing list. When participants submit information to a list, it is sent to everyone who is a subscriber. The primary running news group is rec.running .