PostSecret Attracts Readers Whether Blog, Book or Exhibit
Newsweek has a short article about the extremely popular PostSecret blog. People mail in anonymous secrets on post cards to the blog which posts several of them each day. The Newsweek article says PostSecret now gets 400 anonymous submissions each week. A book based on the blog, PostSecret : Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives, was recently released and hit the bestseller list on Amazon.com. The book is currently ranked #58 on Amazon. The blog is also popular as an exhibit. A recent exhibit received 15,000 visitors according to this blog entry.
The first solo PostSecret exhibit ended two weeks ago; 15,000 people attended the show, 1,100 books were sold and The Washington Post called it, "one of the five best art exhibitions in Washington in 2005". But the best part for me was hearing from many of the brave people who have shared their secrets and listening to the stories from those who have found solace and compassion in them.
The site's founder Frank Warren told Newsweek that he thinks PostSecret helps people face their secrets.
There are some secrets that we think we're keeping, but those secrets are actually keeping us," he says. "I think one way to face those secrets is to write them on a postcard and then physically let it go into a mailbox."
Clearly people are very interested in reading these closely guarded secrets of others as well.
Newsweek has a short 
