The 'Postsecret' blog http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ is self-described as an 'ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard'. The experience translates real 'hard' media, that goes through postal service, computer digitalization, and ends in a digital weblog-style timeline among a multitude of secrets posted by other people. The blog keeper is only doing the task of 'remediating' (more on this concept soon) the received letters into the blog. The experience is one of sharing secret feelings anonymously with a wide audience, which may bring comfort to those who post them by the act of sharing itself, and possibly by receiving support from others in the form of feedback on the blog, and may also bring comfort to people who share the same feelings being exposed on the blog.
A fast skip through this blog revealed many touching, sincere thoughts, that brought me a heart-warming experience in an otherwise 'sterile' and isolated setting such as the one I am in right now - alone, sitting in front of the laptop screen.
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