George Orwell: Blogger

Via Noam Cohen’s New York Times Media Talk item titled What George Orwell Wrote, 70 Years Later to the Day.

It seems The Orwell Prize, the Orwell Trust, Political Quarterly, the Media Standards Trust, and Orwell scholar Peter Davison are bringing the 1984 author’s diaries to the web in blog format, with a very clever twist right in line with the Orwell’s prescient time- and world-shifting narratives.

In their own words:

From 9th August 2008, Orwell’s domestic and political diaries (from 9th August 1938 until October 1942) will be posted in real-time, exactly 70 years after the entries were written.

Cool project.

Check out the Orwell Diaries at: http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/