If the great diarist Samuel Pepys was alive today, he would no doubt use the web to share his thoughts. So Phil Gyford has turned Pepys' daily musings into a weblog. When the idea of making a website out of Samuel Pepys' diary first occurred to me it seemed so obvious that I was worried someone would beat me to it. For nearly 10 years from 1660 Pepys wrote about his experiences day by day: his own intriguing private life, his professional rise through the ranks and important events of the day such as The Great Fire and the Plague. This daily journal of both large and small scale events often happens in public view today, on weblogs. Known as blogs, a few years ago these sites were the sole domain of web geeks but now an ever-increasing number cover thousands of topics. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2621581.stm
