"Traditional diaries are selfish. And they can be limiting, just as first-person narratives. With a blog, however, you always know that there is at least one other person reading your entry, and that makes you chose your words with care, and consider carefully the things you want to talk about. You will think twice before sharing anything with the world, and this is a protection against trivial entries, which abound in most diaries."
Perhaps by "trivial entries", Mr. Mars means to say off-topic or sidebar comments. Certainly historic diaries have entries not necessarily pertinent to the overall time periods, but those bits and pieces offer value to the reading for the human connection they present to current times. Events may change, but the human condition remains the same? 
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