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Blogging in the 19th Century: The Future of Journalism

The Victorians had some great ideas about the future of blogging. Indeed, many people in the Victorian era were much wiser when it came to blogging than a lot of 21st century bloggers are, which is surprising, given that trying to talk to a Victorian about "blogging" would probably land you in an insane asylum. Having said that, I would imagine that any readers able to travel through time at will would probably not find a 19th century asylum that hard to escape from, but I digress.

(Edit: I think some American readers may be taking my use of "evangelist" the wrong way. As a British guy, to me it means the same as "fundie", or "nutter" - I'm not attacking the good media-analysing bloggers out there.)

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E-mail the Future - A Scientific Application

Tim Harford, the "Undercover Economist" (although personally I'm not sure publishing two best-selling books and having an FT column under your name is really being that undercover) has just posted an entry on his blog about the "Time Machiner". This is a fascinating little web application that lets you send e-mails now for delivery in the future, on any date up to 2030.

This is similar to Royal Mail's technology, which allows the delivery of today's mail in the distant future, but can't guarantee any particular day, month of year.

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