Ethan Jaynes

classic! - Jonathan Greene via fftogo

pfff. can't watch that from europe. i hate hulu... - Jérôme Flipo

We're sorry, currently our video library can only be streamed within the United States. :-( - Leandro Koiti Sato

I had an anonymous blog until I remembered it was on a shared IP with some of my other sites. I should take this into the Heckle-Yourself FF room. - Chris Baskind

A dating one? What, where you chronicle your dating adventures? ;) - Lindsay Donaghe

i at this point just don't care and will say whatever - Cecil Sandus

I've considered it, but I'm terrible at remembering to log in/out of places. Besides, everyone tells me they'd know me anywhere by my writing style, it would be a lost cause! - eve shot first

Last comment and then I really must sleep or at least try. After an extended google chat followed by a half hour on the phone. I can see why there are reasons to have a anonymous blog and on such a blog full confidentiality. All about sex and entirely NSFW or your mom. I liked it. :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

still am ;) ..but it's updated once every few months in like lumps LOL - Mona N.

No, and yes, have thought about it. Had a rough period a couple of years back, someone wise suggested to me that an anonymous blog was a great way of letting off steam and dealing with the situation. I wouldn't do it today though, too easy to trace back - Duncan Riley

@Duncan, with things like Posterous.com do you think that would be easy to track who was authoring it? You just email your posts in... Create a fake GMail address to use for it. Am I missing something? - Lindsay Donaghe

I'm down to one single anonymous email. Everything else is pretty much spliced in here on FF. I'm all for 100% transparency. I got nothing to hide. Just don't stalk/lurk/troll on me or else. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I used to blog anonymously. I don't any longer. Most days I'm glad; some days I wish I were still anonymous. It's not so much "controversial topics" I worry about.... Rather, I do my best thinking/processing through writing. Were I still anonymous I'd be more likely to write (and hence better think about/process) things which I no longer do because they happen to be personal. - Joanmarie

I thought about this yesterday, then I figured I didn't care if people knew it was me writing these things. I decided that I would probably just use a different blog, not an anonymous one. - ♫ Rahsheen™

I have put some up on occasion. They have their uses. - Soulhuntre via twhirl

I've had a few. It's rewarding for a while. Now, I just try and speak my mind and assume that my future employers will be cool enough to get over it. - Nicholas Molnar via twhirl

go for the full rant in public.. it is attractive.. it is the future.. privacy is an illusion, the privacy an ostrich has with its head in the sand - Gregory Lent

I don't, but I am not that interesting. - RAPatton

There is no such thing as an anonymous blog. - Ontario Emperor

Ontario, that's not true. Except to people who personally knew me, the journals I kept from 1995 until recently were completely anonymous. In fact, they were written in such a way that even my friends had trouble figuring out if I were writing about them or not. - Akiva Moskovitz

I had an anonymous dating blog. I'm married now so like my old lucky futon, it doesn't see any action. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Good question. I've actually been contemplating writing a new blog that is anonymous that has more about life, love, work and reality. That was my goal for my personal blog, but since I know my gramma reads that one, I tend to leave out all the good details. - Lauren Beyer

Yes. Have had it for years. - Cyndy

I've definitely thought about it -- haven't ruled it out yet. - Shey

I am pretty out in the open, so I have not even thought of starting one. Good topic though. - Ethan Jaynes

Mine's not anonymous but it may take people a second of Googling to connect my Livejournal ID to my name. - Morton Fox

I want to do this- Mainly to talk about intimacy subjects - Angie

I agree that is a natural approach to starting a blog, but say you already know what you want to write about for the next 30 days on a blog. You already have set goals and a writing strategy. What would you spend time doing first? When you go to a blog with an established archive, people may see it a bit differently than seeing the same blog with only a handful of posts. - Louis Ponder via twhirl

I wouldn't want to post a month's worth of stuff at once. I don't think people would read it all and it would be harder to market. I say, if you have the material you should post it at whatever posting schedule you want to maintain and write more as you go (to stay ahead). - Joseph Z.

start with some widgets... social interaction will lead to creativity - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

I agree with the last post. Add some widgets its a good start. Also as a beginner myself asking the same questions though. - orionstarr

Really good suggestions everyone, but I guess I'm not looking at it from the same point of view. Treating a blog as a product launch, one could argue that having value to the user at the beginning will keep them around longer. So do you concentrate your efforts before launch on having the foundation posts set. Or do you put your best content first to give users the 'WOW' factor to hook them in. The question isn't really about whether you are new to blogging, or how to start a blog from scratch. More of a marketing question I guess. - Louis Ponder via twhirl

It depends what you want to do - how much PHP and CSS do you know? How customizable do you want it? Is it for a company or for a personal blog? WordPress is a great way to go, but you just need to know what you want to do with your blog. For both beginners and those who want control, WordPress is often a good choice - Ben Parr

Yes, if you want to take care yourself of hosting and desing (you can easly just pick a premade template). Not if you don't even know how to do an FTP. Have you considered the hosted Wordpress.com ? Give it a try before getting in a self hosted Wordpress script. - Fabrice Epelboin

Personally, I would also start with a wordpress.com blog, just so you get the feel of it. If you like it, get your own site! - J.T Dabbagian