When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.
If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.