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Blogging Now Good for You, Still Bad for Some

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the join-the-eggs-and-cholesterol-club dept.

Several users have alerted us to a May Scientific American article that has been getting some attention more recently. Apparently, blogging is now good for you and, at least in this context, is the suggested reason for the explosion of blogging. This is quite the departure from some of the results we have seen in practice for more prolific bloggers.

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  1. The difference by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bloggers who want to blog to maintain a status (i.e. fame, fortune, etc) find blogging stressful. Of course it's stressful, it's become a JOB!

    In contrasts, bloggers who do it to vent out their frustration and share a part of their mind with the world, find it fulfilling.

    Not quite a discovery if you think of it that way.

  2. Re:journaling yes, blogging no by physman_wiu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually some people out there feel a sense of comfort when they post their private journals and then have a stranger be understanding and accepting. They feel as if they aren't alone in this world.

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    Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. ~John Moffat
  3. Re:journaling yes, blogging no by CastrTroy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Journalling isn't always good. Just ask Hans Reiser.

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    Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.