Old friend Steven Johnson mentions this blog in his article “in praise of oversharing” in Time magazine.

Oversharing, in a strange way, turns out to be a civic good. This concept also dates back to the early days of the electronic commons; Rheingold’s 1993 book The Virtual Community told the story of a member of the pioneering online community, The Well, posting about an ultimately fatal battle with cancer. But The Well was a small community compared to the vast expanse of the Web, and those conversations unfolded in a space uncrawled by Google’s spiders. The shared experience and wisdom that comes from living in public can now reach a much bigger audience — most of them complete strangers, dropping into the conversation from a search query.

Of course, the cancer element endows a certain nobility to all the talk about Jarvis’s penis and Howard’s butt

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1990586-2,00.html#ixzz0oVYInBkD