Not only is Ann Althouse blogging at her regular blog, she’s also blogging the past:
It’s a new blog designed to make up for the terrible feeling of retrospective loss I feel for all the years when there was no blogging.
I’m assuming that the real blogging of news, culture, and politics began in 1998 — we can argue about that if you want — and this project will look to 100 years before 1998.
I’ve used a random integer generator to spit out my first 100 year numbers, and the date will always be today’s date. I’ll advance to a new random year each day. Today’s blogging happens to be for May 12, 1974. I adopt the mindset I have when I look at the day’s news to blog here on Althouse, but I look at the New York Times archive for the chosen date. I pick a few things to post about with exactly the sort of attitude that I have when I pick what to write about here.
An interesting idea if you have the time to read it, not to mention the time to write it. Unfortunately, all of the articles that she links to her in posts at the new blog are hidden behind the NY Times firewall and only available to Times Select subscribers.
