[wordup] 1660 Diary Becomes 2003 Weblog

[Adam Shand]

This is neat.

Via: http://slashdot.org/articles/03/01/03/1444251.shtml?tid=99
URL: http://www.pepysdiary.com/

1660 Diary Becomes 2003 Weblog
NewsPosted by michael on Friday January 03, @10:30AM
from the plus-ca-change dept.

EnlightenmentFan writes "When technology improves a book that was
already good, that's good news for nerds. I'm not talking about the Two
Towers, but the diary of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) (pronounced Peeps, as
in marshmallow peeps), whose diaries record not only the Great Fire of
London and the plague but his many seductions, trickeries, encounters
with the king, almost getting executed, etc. Brit blogger Phil Gyford
realized that this diary would make a great weblog--clickable footnotes,
online feedback and all. So now he is serializing it daily, starting Jan
2, 1660, supposedly over the next ten years. The BBC has the backstory.
I hope Gyford will deviate from Gutenberg's 1893 version to include some
of Pepys's more outrageous sexual adventures, reduced by the 1893
version to "....""