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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Post Secret

This week I'm highlighting another kinda-blog, Post Secret.  Post Secret was created by Frank Warren and is a community art project.  You send anonymous, home-made postcards to Frank, and every Sunday he posts them on his website.  The site has since expanded to show news, community, events and books.  There is also a facebook page and you can purchase Frank's books through Amazon as well.  The blog has won many blogging and web awards, 

What is Post Secret?  from Wikipedia:

"The concept of the project was that completely anonymous people decorate a postcard and portray a secret that they had never previously revealed. No restrictions are made on the content of the secret; only that it must be completely truthful and must never have been spoken before. Entries range from admissions of sexual misconduct and criminal activity to confessions of secret desires, embarrassing habits, hopes and dreams. The secrets are meant to be empowering both to the author and to those who read it. Frank Warren claims that the postcards are inspirational to those who read them, have healing powers for those who write them, give hope to people who identify with a stranger's secret, and create an anonymous community of acceptance."


If you want to know more in Frank's own words, he recently spoke at TED about the project, in a talk titled "Half a Million Secrets".

There's also international Post Secrets (with some or no affiliation with the original) in Portugal, SpainFrance, UK, Kazakhstan, Norway, Korea, and in Dutch.  (China apparently has one too, but I can't find it)  Not affiliated directly, there is also the Post Secret archive, which has more secrets.  

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