Is a blog just a public diary?

Inquiring minds want to know. Someone opined that blogging was "thinking in public."

I find the damdest links mentioning Proust. Read down a couple paragraphs and you will find the reference. Proust is renowned throughout the globe. Would he be surprised? The universal is always found in the specific.

http://raymondfederman.blogspot.com/2007/12/conversation-with-miloi.html

Odette