TPH at Math Class for Poets has some piercing observations about anonymity in the blawg world. I must admit that there is a definite psychological benefit to identifying one's self with one's own writing and there have been a few times in the past coup... Read More
I can't ever resist a good discussion of online identity. This one seems to me to assume that pseudonyms must Read More
I blog anonymously in large part because I hope to transfer law schools after 1L. I don't want to offend anyone at my current school (which is a fine place, and has given me a lovely scholarship) who might be offended by my desire to transfer; nor do I wish to jeopardize my transfer opportunities at other schools. When I'm eventually looking for jobs or applying for clerkships, I imagine that the anonymity will be just as valuable then.
I certainly can identify with the joy and pride that comes from signing one's name to acts of expression of which one is particularly proud; that's why I also have a separate personal website. Keeping the two distinct gives me the best of both worlds.