Blogging from the past

Filed Under Websites on 2008-01-07, 12:54

William Henry Bonser Lamin, World War I Blogger

For awhile now I’ve debated starting yet another blogging project. One where I blog about current events, but set them up so that they are posted 5,10,15, or more years in the future, but on the same date. Basically taking the idea of time-shifting and applying it to a blog. Well it looks like someone’s doing something similar. I came across WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier, a blog being written through the letters of a soldier in World War I. The posts are being published 90 years after the dates the letters were originally written by his grandson. The blog also contains additional posts with more information, pictures, and scans of things the grandson has discovered in his research of his grandfather’s life which, while they may destroy the purity of the concept, provide more context and back story. Definitely worth checking out, especially for those that are history geeks.

Comments

Alicia Renee

Spiffy! back in 04 a cat I knew started a similar blog, but with his own journal writings (from 99) paired with other historical entries from that particular date in history
http://snurl.com/1x548

Still think it's a brilliant, underutilized device.

I'd be interested in running into the time-shift blog you've described in the future, history is rather remarkable & often frighteningly repetitious.