The proverbial needle.
Certainly the surest way to guarantee anonymity is simply not to write anything, or at least to not make anything public. But the vastness of cyberspace, and the close to total dominance that the major players hold over the web, offers us another sort of anonymity - our chances of being found are often close to nil. About a year and a half ago I referred to the Carr-Benkler wager of 2006. Back when it was still an issue I placed myself clearly on Benkler's side, though as time went on (and my disappointment in the direction the web was taking increased) I found myself agreeing with Carr, even if my hopes were still with Benkler. But today it seems clear that it really doesn't make a difference who "won". Even if Benkler is right, much too much user-generated content is so generic that it could have been prepared by a machine. In order to stand out, to make it possible to find us, it's necessary to go to extremes, and there's nothing particularly original about that. Rather than being original it's more like playing the game according to the rules of the major players. Simply from the outset having no intention of reaching a mass audience seems to be the best route toward being public yet still semi-anonymous.
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