Diaries, on-line diaries, and the future loss to archives; Or, blogs and the blogging bloggers who blog them

American Archivist

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-73

  O'Sullivan, Catherine ^a  

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EID: 79959323643     PISSN: 03609081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17723/aarc.68.1.7k7712167p6035vt     Document Type: Article

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4. Graff, The Legacies of Literacy.
5. Tessa Watt argues that the "growing specialization of publishers in printed works for humble readers" and the wide-reaching network of itinerant book peddlers, who ventured off the main roads and into small villages to sell their wares, suggest a segment of England's rural population was also reading at this time. Tessa Watt, Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 5, 267.
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10. Webster, "Writing to Redundancy."
11. Cited in Germaine Fry Murray, A Critical Edition of John Beadle's A Journall or Diary of a Thankfull Christian (London and New York: Garland Press, 1996), xxx.
12. Murray, A Critical Edition of John Beadle's A Journall, xxxi.
13. Arthur Ponsonby, More English Diaries: Further Reviews of Diaries from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century with an Introduction on Diary Reading (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927), 71-73.
14. Arthur Ponsonby, Scottish and Irish Diaries from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century with an Introduction (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927), 34-40. This was Archibald Johnston, framer of the Scots National Covenant (1638), who after being made a Lord of the Sessions in 1641 took a prominent part in the Westminster Assembly and became a member of the committee representing Scotland in London. He was subsequently made Lord Advocate and Lord Clerk Register, but was eventually arrested and hanged in Edinburgh at the time of the Restoration.
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19. See also The Online Diary of Samuel Pepys, http://www.pepysdiary.com/.
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25. Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale, 39.
26. Quoted in Molly McCarthy, "A Pocketful of Days: Pocket Diaries and Daily Record Keeping among Nineteenth-Century New England Women," New England Quarterly 73 (June 2000): 275, 278.
27. Andreas Kitzmann, "That Different Place: Documenting the Self within Online Environments," Biography 26 (Winter 2003): 50.
28. Graff, Legacies of Literacy, 260.
29. Karen Lystra, Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 16.
30. Jane Hunter, "Inscribing the Self in the Heart of the Family: Diaries and Girlhood in Late-Victorian America," American Quarterly 44 (March 1992): 52.
31. Hunter, "Inscribing the Self," 68.
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33. T. S. Arthur, Advice to Young Ladies on Their Duties and Conduct in Life (Boston: Phillips & Sampson, 1848), 57
34. quoted in McCarthy, A Pocketful of Days," 285.
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37. Kitzmann, "That Different Place," 54.
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39. Suzanne Bunkers, Diaries of Girls and Women: A Midwestern American Sampler (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001), 66.
40. Cited in Philippe Lejeune, "The 'Journal de Jeune Fille' in Nineteenth-Century France," in Inscribing the Daily, 119.
41. Ponsonby, Scottish and Irish Diaries, 137-47 and 153-61;
42. Melosina Lenox-Conyngham, Diaries of Ireland: An Anthology, 1590-1987 (Dublin: Lilliput Press. 1998), 81-91.
43. Cynthia Huff, "Textual Boundaries: Space in Nineteenth-Century Women's Manuscripts," in Inscribing the Daily, 131.
44. Judy Simons, "Invented Lives: Textuality and Power in Early Women's Diaries," in Inscribing the Daily, 257.
45. Simons, "Invented Lives: Textuality and Power in Early Women's Diaries," 259.
46. Marilyn Ferris Motz, "Folk Expression of Time and Place, 19th-Century Midwestern Rural Diaries," Journal of American Folklore 100 (April-June 1987): 133.
47. Neil A. Lewis, "Nazis and Jews: Insights From Old Diary," New York Times, 22 April 2004, http:// www.nytimes.com/2004/04/22/politics/22diary. html;
48. Dennis Overbye, "From a Companion's Lost Diary, A Portrait of Einstein in Old Age," New York Times, 24 April 2004, .ast;http://www. nytimes.com/ 2004/04/24/nyregion/24EINS.html;
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52. Ponsonby, English Diaries, 1.
53. Christine Carl, Bloggers and Their Blogs: A Depiction of the Users and Usage of Weblogs on the World Wide Web (Master's thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University, 2003), 3.
54. See, for instance, LiveJournal's Terms of Services, which shows the account structure and gives a rundown of the various types of accounts that are offered, at http://www.livejournal.com/legal/tos.bml. All accounts through Diaryland are free, http://diaryland.com/faq.html.
55. Blogger is one: http://www.blogger.com/about.pyra. Movable Type is another: http://www.movabletype. org/. Many sites provide their own, in-house software.
56. Todd Levin, "Dear Diary," http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/ 1999/12/10/diaryland.html.
57. Levin, "Dear Diary."
58. Laurie McNeill, "Teaching an Old Genre New Tricks: The Diary on the Internet," Biography 26 (Winter 2003): 24.
59. Blogcount, http://dijest.com/bc/.
60. A recent survey conducted by Perseus estimates a total of 4.12 million blogs have been published on the Web, but 66% (or 2.7 million) of these became inactive just two months after they were created. Only 13,600 abandoned blogs were later resumed or updated. Perseus derived its statistics from major weblog portals only and they do not include smaller portals. Perseus predicted that "The number of hosted blogs created to exceed five million by the end of 2003 and to exceed ten million by the end of 2004," http://www.perseus.com/ blogsurvey/thebloggingiceberg. html.
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62. Garfield, "New Kids on the Blog.
63. Carl, "Bloggers and Their Blogs," 3.
64. http://www.nowthis.com.
65. No longer available, but excerpts and interview with Burke can be found on the Online Diary History Project, http://www.diaryhistoryproject.com/.
66. http://www.perseus.com/blogsurvey/thebloggingiceberg.html.
67. http://www.perseus.com/blogsurvey/thebloggingiceberg.html.
68. Glenn Reynolds, "On the Warpath," The Guardian, 20 February 2003, 5.
69. http://www.cnet.com/.
70. http://www.20six.co.uk/.
71. http://www.p45blogs.net/.
72. See, for instance, the LiveJournal Directory, http://www.livejournal.com/ directory.bml.
73. Philippe Lejeune, 'Cher écran. . .,': Journal personnel, ordinateur, Internet (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2000), 193.
74. See, for instance, http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml? faqid=24.
75. http://www.p45blogs.net/elbano/archives/001665.html. This site has since been removed from the Internet.
76. Madeleine Sorapure, "Screening Moments, Scrolling Lives: Diary Writing on the Web," Biography 26 (Winter 2003): 4.
77. Philippe Lejeune, "How Do Diaries End?" Biography 24 (Winter 2001): 110.
78. http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,63856,00.html.
79. http://www.archive.org/.
80. A robots.txt file is a control file that a Web site maintainer uses to restrict a Web crawler from accessing parts of the site, generally information that the site maintainer does not want copied or indexed by a search engine. It is a voluntary mechanism that Web crawlers are encouraged to obey. See http://www.webpro.co.za/services/robots-explained.htm.