I'm really surprised that this author (Wade Roush) would claim that what people really want is privateness on the Web. Isn't the draw, for many bloggers at least, to publish in a public space? Blog platforms have almost always allowed some level of privacy control, and Vox seems to have refined this for sure, but Roush's assertion that more people would blog "if blogs weren't so, well, public" is really odd - and probably misguided.

Okay,a snarky subject line. But why blog privately? Why not just send an email if you only want certain select folks to read what you write or post? Where's the fun in that? If I tried to restrict my blog to only those who I thought wanted to read it, then no one would read it. Damn few do anyway. But that's not really why I blog. It's more of a space for thinking aloud, in public, and to be writing for public consumption though few consume it. In some respects, it's like a "poetry pole" (there's one in Yakima, WA and Coeur d'Alene, ID, both kinda nearby) where people tack their poems to a post in some space so passersby can read the poems that have been written and posted. It's just that my blog isn't poetic, or even coherent sometimes.

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Well, not everyone is as extroverted as we are. Just think of all the thousands (tens of thousands?) of people out there who think I'm the greatest blogger since Descartes. You don't see them blogging about it in their public blogs. Now, it's a different story entirely in the private blogosphere. There, I'm more popular than John Lennon. And I dare you to prove it isn't so.

I guess this means we can start citing private blogs in our public blogs, right? Hmm. Must consult my Palantír (it hasn't worked very well since I drilled holes in it so I could use it for bowling).

Gotta go--looks like my little brother managed to hack my sister's password to her private blog. Yikes!

Check out Barton's gaming blog at Armchair Arcade.