Twain on Blogging?

It is no use to keep private information which you can’t show off.

An Author’s Soldiering, 1887

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
Mark Twain in Eruption

is mark twain right?  is there use in keeping a private journal?  have blogs eliminated the need for leather bound journals?  the feel is different.  writing online doesn't feel the same as writing in a journal.  pen in hand is different than keyboard at fingertips.  but my journal i can close and hide, i can't hide my thoughts and feelings once i blog about them.  it is public.  it is online.  the WORLD WIDE web.  maybe that makes writing better, maybe that makes it worse...

everyone loves getting notifications on facebook, compliments on their pictures, compliments on their blogs.  does it matter if the source is incompetent? not really.  the internet is great for feedback.  sometimes positive, sometimes negative, not feedback is feedback right?  it seems like everything online now has a response section.  nytimes articles, recipes, blogs, facebook, myspace, they all have space for feedback. i wonder what mark twain's blog would look like...  i bet he would rip apart our blogs, that would be interesting...