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Re:Is a blog format possible
Coming in late, but you might like http://www.pepysdiary.com/
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Re:Is a blog format possible
The usual way to handle it is to remove dates completely from the stylesheet and just put the date in the title.
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old dates in URLs
The post URLs have old dates, such as http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1660/01/26/ - it doesn't say "really posted on 2003/01/26", not that I can see anywhere.
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Re:Is a blog format possible
It's been done for Samuel Pepys: http://www.pepysdiary.com/
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Plus ça change...It seems little has changed.
Read Pepys' Diary for the 17th August 1666, where he quotes a friend describing the King of Siam out hunting, and the European visitors not knowing they should fall on their faces as he passed..."Their druggerman did desire them to fall down, for otherwise he should suffer for their contempt of the King." At the end of the hunt, the dragoman told the King's emissary how much the foreigners liked it, which was quite untrue; but no matter, said the dragoman, "for our King do not live by meat, nor drink, but by having great lyes told him.”
Whatever about the personal feelings of the king about lèse-majesté being thwarted by a traditionalist administration, he needs to get his act together.
There now, I've blown any chance of ever going to Thailand.
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Modernized spellingHaving seen First Folio spellings, I have to wonder how much controversy there was when Shakespeare first appeared in modern spelling. Consider the opening lines of "The Tempest":
Master. Bote-swaine.
Botes. Heere Master: What cheere?
Mast. Good: Speake to th' Mariners: fall
too't, yarely, or we run our selues a ground,
bestirre, bestirre.
In more modern spelling this becomes:
MASTER. Boatswain!
BOATSWAIN. Here, master; what cheer?
MASTER. Good! Speak to th' mariners; fall to't yarely, or
we run ourselves aground; bestir, bestir.
Was this considered a radical watering-down, back in the day?
I've also considered what Shakespeare's plays would look like as IRC logs; I suspect such an approach would work at least as well as the blog version of Pepys' Diaries -
i wonder what he thinks of this blog
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Could be a good thingI like the idea of blogging even though I don't blog myself. I do wonder though if all these blogs might be valuable in the future. Consider Samuel Pepy's Diary. It provides an invaluable look at what life was like in the 17th century.
I imagine that while a majority of blogs are from angsty self important whiners it's when significant events happen that it's interesting to go back and read people's take on it. I don't know about anyone else but I've often clicked on the Hall of Fame section and read comments from some of the most replied to stories. It's fascinating (well to some) to see what people thought and said during significant events. Assuming that many blogs will still be around thanks to sites like The Internet Archive it could be a valuable reference and research tool for future generations. And then again maybe only the bad blogs will survive. The ones that proclaim Lemmy is god and George W. is teh suck.
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Re:public domain audio and e-text
Yes.