I keep one for myself.

I've had a few over the years. They usually crop up to document a type of journey. My first one (that others actually read) was to document my experience with going on Accutane as an adult. It was extremely helpful to have all my links, photos and experiences all in one place. Unfortunately, I think I deleted it as I can no longer access it. Stupid me. I constantly got comments and questions from people who were reading it.

My second big journal/blog was about fitness weight loss. I kept it at a private site where only members of the site could read it. I felt like those members were my friends and they often posted comments, so it was helpful to keep me on track and to keep me going (and posting). I've since kind of let that one die. It started to taper off a bit when I picked up cycling and kind of moved away from exercise videos, but it's gotten worse since moving out west. I just haven't had time to keep it up.

Now I have one documenting our journey from suburban DINKs to self-sustaining homesteaders (eventually), and it's for my own reference. I don't think anyone is reading it, but I'm mostly using it as a journal. This way, I'll have a reference of when we did things and photos and links and stuff. Maybe some day, it'll help someone else considering making the same journey. I'm tempted to share the link with family and friends back east, but I haven't yet. I'm not sure why, either.