Thank you!
Hey, private journals are fine: I certainly have my own!
I'm more thinking of people who want to be sort of research bloggers or reporters. An opinion or philosophy is great if it's simply a discussion of a thought the blogger had, but so often people are trying to be reporters and it gets tiring to have snarkiness be the mode of conversation:
I'm not even exaggerating - simply questions are often met with statements like "Why don't you just do some research with Google and be less ignorant?"