As a follow on

As a follow on to the Qlogger.com post below, I think it would be great if they added tools like those you can get at DailyDiary.com. I like the basic idea of Daily Diary – it periodically emails you questions like “How was your day” for you to answer on a scale of 1-10 – but feel it’s somewhat limited in scope. Combining it with blogging would be a Very Good Thing.

I say this because I’ve been reading a lot of history lately and am repeatedly amazed at how much information historians are able to glean about people from scant records like real estate documents and letters – especially letters.

Email has pretty much obliterated letter-writing as a historical reference point. Wouldn’t it be great if people started documenting their lives in blogs? Some people already do, but it’s kind of voyeuristic.

It doesn’t have to be that way. I’d love to keep a private diary online that captures my random thoughts (like this one) and also documents the fact that, say, I went through a period where I listened to Madonna’s “Ray of Light” a lot. (Don’t ask. That’s probably one of those things that I would’ve wanted to keep private. :)

This is not to suggest that I think my life/blog will be especially interesting to future historians, but maybe my great grandchildren will get a few grins out of it.

TextAmerica looks like a good step in that direction.

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