I feel a little uncomfortable making a blatant plug. For one thing, you’re one of maybe about three or four people reading this, so a plug won’t have much effect, anyway. For the main thing, an enthusiastic recommendation can (and should) raise the suspicion of the blogger having sold out.

Full disclosure: I’m not getting paid to blog about the December publication of PostSecret : Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives. I’m not even getting a free copy of the book. But I was pretty jazzed to get the email the other day that it’s happening. It’s material published on the PostSecret blog, plus additional material that hasn’t been published online.

I’ve been meaning to comment on PostSecret for a while. (The link’s been over there on the blogroll since day one.) I think it’s one of the most perfect sites there is, a supreme example of an idea blending with technology to facilitate a compelling outpouring of visitor-generated content. PostSecret is elegant in its simplicity, profound in its execution, and utterly fascinating in its mining of countless facets of human emotion, from the hilarious to the disturbing.

I can’t imagine the book being anything less than exceptional.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 at 6:00 am and is filed under Internet Stuff, This 'n' That.