Celebrating the 70^th anniversary of the Orwell Diaries; The Orwell Prize will be serialising them as a blog, opening up the author to those yet to read his most personal writing.

Each entry will be published online exactly 70 years after it was originally penned by Orwell. And they mean everything, August 10^th’s entry, “Drizzly. Dense mist in evening. Yellow moon.” Besides following the meteorological concerns of Orwell during his recuperation in Morocco after being shot in the neck, his opinion on the world’s descent into war is also documented.

Does the presentation of Orwell’s diary in a social media friendly format have any effect on the way we read, and subsequently digest the work? I think this is worth considering should you begin to follow the daily musings throughout 2008 and beyond of a literary giant who died over 58 years ago.