Orwellian Diaries

Having finished 1984 a couple of days ago, it was cool to see a piece in the NY Times a bit after the fact about a new blog called The Orwell Prize. It's old news, but new to me. The gist:

The Orwell Prize, Britain’s pre-eminent prize for political writing, is publishing George Orwell’s diaries as a blog. 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.

Samuel Pepys's peeps have been posting his diaries for years. Let's hope for more. Let's see...Dickens, George Eliot, Maugham. While I would prefer reading these things the old-fashioned way, it's interesting to see words of more than 100 years ago -- centuries in some cases -- meet the structures of the Web. You know. Links and stuff.