George Orwell, blogger?

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Sept. 7, 1938: "Overheard local English resident: ... Hitter's going to have Czechoslovakia art right. If he doesn't get it now, he'll go on and on till he does.'" This diary entry was written by George Orwell, the British author whose works include 1984 and Animal Farm. Orwell's diaries are now being published in blog form (orwelldiaries.wordpress.com). Each entry is being published 70 years to the day after it was written. Orwell, who died in 1950, was as prolific as any blogger. His collected writings...