Cool... The observations were made by George Orwell , whose copious diaries are now being published every day in blog form, exactly 70 years after they were made. The scholars behind the project say they are trying to get more attention for Orwell online and to make him more relevant to a younger generation he would have wanted to speak to. “I think he would have been a blogger,” said Jean Seaton, a professor at the University of Westminster in London who administers the Orwell writing prize and thought up the idea of the blog. Media Talk - What George Orwell Wrote, 70 Years Later to the Day - NYTimes.com
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Chapter 9 First published January 2004 Last updated March 2005 THE WAR ON TERROR In some ways ...[Julia]... was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connexion to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, 'just to keep people frightened'.... more
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I am concerned about the problem of "functional illiteracy" in this country, the past aside. So much so that I believe a portion of the profits from the sale of books should be donated to fighting illiteracy, in a real "Marxist" sense
What is even more concerning is the "self-imposed illiterates," that is, people who can read very well, but for obscure reasons, are choosing not too, or waste their time reading junk, like gossip magazines and weekly tabloids (of ... more
In 1950 while I was a senior in Good Old Franklin High in Rochester NY, our honors English class received a book report assignment. It was a shock. We were to read and comment on the novel Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell. In his writings, Orwell contributed many words to the English vocabulary. In Nineteen Eighty Four, the term “Big Brother Is Watching You” became the very symbolism of a giant super state watching endlessly over the prole or the little guy.
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A major item off the iPhone if-only list In an apparent about-face, Apple Inc. will allow third-party applications to work directly on the iPhone, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in a posting on the company’s Web site Wednesday. Apple infuriated developers and some iPhone users when it issued a software update Sept. 27 that disabled unofficial programs installed on the handsets. Until Wednesday, Apple had tried to control which applications consumers had on their iPh... more
Somehow I suspect this isn’t going to help Sony leapfrog Xbox or Wii Suffering from its exorbitant price point and a dearth of titles, Sony’s PlayStation 3 isn’t exactly the most popular gaming platform on the block. But while the console flounders in the commercial space, the PS3 may be finding a new calling in the realm of science and research. Right now, a cluster of eight interlinked PS3s is busy solving a celestial mystery involving gravitational waves and what happen... more
Depressing reality check Government repression in some countries has shifted from journalists to bloggers, with the vitality of the Internet triggering a more focused crackdown as blogs increasingly take the place of mainstream news media, according to Lucie Morillon, Washington director of the advocacy group Reporters Without Borders . "Countries that were not sentencing journalists to prison terms anymore have been doing it these last months for bloggers. This is the case ... more
Aiming high... It would be hard to overstate the magnitude of the changes that are coming. Standardized, software-powered communications technologies will be the catalyst for the convergence of voice, video, text, applications, information, and transactions, making it possible to create a seamless communications continuum that extends across people’s work and home lives. This will provide the foundation for new products, services, and capabilities that will change the world in pr... more
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