Old meets new. Quill and ink diary writing meets blogging. History and literature combine in the digital age.

Long before Big Brother became linked with reality TV, George Orwell’s 1984 enthralled me. Published in 1949 this vision of the future was way ahead of its time. I read it in 1984. There was no evidence then of the Thought Police in my world, and original thought was to be aspired to, not locked away in Room 101.
First it was Samuel Pepys diaries being published online with its glimpses of 17th century life, now George Orwell’s diary from 1938 is being blogged daily. Some of it is mundane but charming (70 years ago today they also had very heavy rain and yesterday the first Beauty of Bath apples were ready), but I’m all signed up for the RSS feed and a glimpse into the life of one of our great authors.
Posted by: Fiona at Almost elevenses on Tuesday, 12th August 2008
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It would be even harder to miss the fact that Google had to make a rapid and very public climb down over the wee matter of transfer of copyright ownership that snuck into the initial T&C’s and set the web alight with blogger furore. Ooops.
100GB per second internet.
amongst other things made me think about taboos and advertising.