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Ever one to keep up with the latest technologies, Samuel Pepys has now started twittering regularly. He’ll be updating around three times a day, so feel free to follow him if you want to keep up with what he’s doing before he gets round to writing his diary at night.
When thinking of putting Pepys on Twitter my first thought was simply to post a quote once a day, with a link to that day’s diary entry. But while compiling the quotes for upcoming days I realised that to be more in keeping with Twitter the account should update in real time.
So, technology willing, the samuelpepys account should update regularly with quotes from that day’s diary entry as if Sam’s sending them as the events happen. Of course, I’ve guessed at the time of day each event happens, but they should make sense.
The only oddity (well, aside from a 17th century Londoner using Twitter) is the days of the week not being in sync with our own — so while the time of day will be the same as ours (for those in the UK) Pepys will, for example, go to church on our Wednesdays.
I’m aware that posting the day’s events during the course of the day could seem like spoilers for that night’s diary. The simple answer is to not follow the Twitter feed; the events won’t appear on PepysDiary.com so there won’t be any spoilers on this site.
I hope the upside is that many people will now be able to keep up with Pepys’ life, even if in a minimal fashion, who wouldn’t usually read the diary at all.
Many thanks to Phil Gregory for donating the samuelpepys Twitter account for this purpose.
8 comments | Permalink | Sunday 10 May 2009 | New features
Last year St Olave, Pepys’ local church, held a series of talks. They’re doing the same again this year, with one every month. Here’s the schedule of the remaining talks for 2009:
Food is served from 6.15pm with the event starting at 6.45pm. Tickets are £12 on the door or can be booked from Phil Manning on 020 7488 4318.
The church is on Hart Street, London, EC3R 7NB. Here’s a map.
You can also download a PDF flyer.
If anyone goes along, do post a comment to let us know how it goes.
Be the first to comment | Permalink | Monday 23 March 2009 | Events
This afternoon I was on BBC Radio Scotland’s Book Café, talking about the Pepys’ Diary website. I doubt I said anything you don’t already know but I’ve made an MP3 of the segment you can listen to.
I can only say that I felt more excited than I sound!
Here are links to some of the other things mentioned:
Be the first to comment | Permalink | Monday 23 March 2009 | Press for this site
Yesterday there was an article in the Sunday Times about Pepys’ Diary, as well as the George Orwell Diaries and the posting of Pride and Prejudice to Facebook.
[UPDATE: Pride and Prejudice isn’t actually posted to Facebook, but has been written in the style of Facebook.]
It reads a bit strangely to me, in that you could almost be forgiven for thinking this site has only recently begun, rather than being around for six years. And it also makes me wonder why these journalists apparently never get in touch with me when they’re preparing these articles.
3 comments | Permalink | Monday 9 March 2009 | Press for this site