Ben Macintyre of the Times Online (UK) wrote today about the National Trust’s One Day in History massive group blogging experiment this past Tuesday.

The blog is the most apt literary form for our lonely, turbulent times: neurotic, self-absorbed, confessional, but also inquisitive, purging and affirming, profound and mundane. The blog can be both opiate and stimulant, but also a placebo.

Here’s Bryan Appleyard’s contribution to One Day in History.