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Here’s an interesting twist on blogging. Each day an excerpt from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau is posted at http://blogthoreau.blogspot.com/.

If Thoreau were alive today, would he be blogging? Would he associate with the Walden Woods Project? Would he approve of the marketing done in his name?

What about some of the other journals we now treat as literature? I recently quoted from Anne Frank’s diary. Would she be able to blog from her hiding place? And if she could, would she? My guess is that it would be far too dangerous to accidentally let slip some detail that would lead to their discovery.

Would St. Augustine blog? Rainer Maria Rilke? St. Paul? Edgar Allen Poe? And if any of them did, would it change the nature or content of what they wrote?