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Robert DarntonCarl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University LibraryNOVEMBER 17, 2010 (WEDNESDAY)Columbia University Faculty House, Seminar Room, 2nd floor, 6:30PM“Blogging, Now and Then (250 years ago)”Long before the Internet, Europeans exchanged information in ways thatanticipated blogging.  The key element of their information system was the“anecdote,” a term that meant nearly the opposite then from what it meanstoday.  Anecdotes, dispensed by “libellistes” and “paragraph men,” became astaple in the daily diet of news consumed by readers in eighteenth-centuryFrance and England.  They were also pilfered, reworked, and served up inbooks.  By tracking anecdotes through texts, we can reassess a rich strainof history and literature.Please note special time &#38; location:Columbia University Faculty House, Seminar Room, 2nd floor, 6:30PMMap: http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/faculty_house.htmlThis event is free and open to the public.