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23 February 1659/60. Thursday, my birthday, now twenty-seven years." I almost missed the birthday of
Samuel Pepys. Pepys, as you probably know, blogged his
Diary from January 2003 until May 2012, and his site is maintained by Phil Gyford. Gyford began the whole thing again, with new software, in January 2013, as he explains in a
posting on his own site. We wish Pepys and Gyford well.
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| Pepys, App |
Yesterday, I began a (very) brief talk to our department Careers Day about blogging in the 17th and 21st centuries, with "What News?": Pepys’s repeated query to acquaintances and bystanders as he walked daily between the City of London and the court of Whitehall in Westminster, according to his diary from the 1660s. (I should note that Pepys is not only a blog, but also an app, reviewed
here.) What was Pepys seeking? I suggested that what he was after was not facts, not history, but rumor/gossip. If it was nailed down, it was not
au courant, and of less interest to him. Anyway, Pepys would have made a good blogger (and I guess he does).
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