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Though it's worth noting that the kind of blogging which the second article discusses seems to be a very traditional kind of diary writing - *I'm* not surprised that doing that kind of writing in a different medium has the same, already documented effect.

The previous article - I only read the first page - reveals the potential drawbacks of writing in that genre in the blogging medium. The difference between the two media is *audience*. Spilling your guts in public can bite you later in a lot of ways. I consider diary blogging to be a higher-risk and higher-return venture - I've made good friends online, for example, but in certain ways I am much more vulnerable. I have to keep my real name and my username/s separate, for one thing. The chances that anything disastrous and irreparable will happen because of my diary blogging is small, but there is still a set of risks which are not present for paper diaries.