while I agree that freedom of information is important, I do feel that there is a difference between a private personal diary written on paper to arrange your thoughts out of your head after a topsy-turvy day, and a weblog published on the web to be read by anyone and everyone who happens to stumble across it. I'm pretty certain that there's no one who is following my every move on the internet. But there's nothing I click "post" for where I wouldn't feel comfortable with it being seen by my mum, my boyfriend, my boss, the mother of a kid I babysit for, the person who runs the shop down the road... Private written diaries though, they're another matter.