Found some excellent humanities-oriented uses of the web & RSS via Boing Boing this morning.

First, DaVinci’s notebooks, a page a day.

Second, and much more elaborate informationally, the The Diary of Samuel Pepys. It’s heavily hyperlinked, allows user annotations, and follows roughly along with the entry Pepys made 343 years ago on the current date. Judging by the large numbers of comments from people following along, it seems to have a wide readership. The comments are of varying quality of course; some ask and answer good questions on the text, others… “I wonder whether Sam’s breeches and finery dried out enough for today’s affairs.” Though, I guess that, too, is part of the charm of reading the diary of someone long dead.

If I thought my diary entries were going to be so heavily read in 343 years, would I burn my diaries or make them juicier?

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