*UPDATE* I'm going to have to leave the new site private for a few weeks as I go through and ensure that I didn't miss anything in making it anonymous. I expect to do little to no posting in the interim. You can bookmark the new page though for the future and subscribe to its RSS feed.
If you're reading this, you are in a select group. As I've explained before, it's out of job security fear that I keep this site private. Given my vacillations on the decision to write a public blog, it is getting old doing that so I decided to open a brand spanking new blogspot blog to use as a public anonymous site:
The name may be cheesy, sure, but it was quick and easy and somewhat thought-provoking. There are plenty of jobs that I could see myself taking in the future where I could have a site just like this one, openly identifying myself and speaking honestly about my life with no real need for censorship. Unfortunately the job I have now just isn't one of them.
I've wanted to have a public blog again for a long time. The problem was that no matter what I did with this blog to try to maintain anonymity, so long as it is hosted on my danielmorgan.name domain then I am basically constantly in fear of people I work with discovering it. Therefore I would have to censor myself in order to write here. This way I have a site that I can hopefully freely express myself at without fear of reprisals and can actually enjoy a free exchange of ideas while retaining anonymity.
I used the export function in blogger to export all of the posts from this site to an XML file. I then used notepad to open and edit that file and replaced every instance of "blog.danielmorgan.name" (as well as a few missed instances of "danielmorgan.blogspot.com") with the new URL, "nonserviamergofiatlux.blogspot.com". What this accomplished was keeping all my old links to my own writing intact (a HUGE deal).
I also did quick search and replace function edits for every instance of my name that I could find in various iterations and replaced them all with "nsfl". (Go think on that for a moment.) I am currently trying to go through and scrub every instance in which I refer to myself with some identifying information that could be used to prove that the site is mine, and that will probably take some time. Therefore, I may decide to make the site private for just a while longer. In the end I figure that if anyone sleuths hard enough, they'll find some comment or backlink that will connect the new site to my identity and/or this blogsite's URL. Therefore, the privacy measures aren't considered absolute, but only relatively strong enough to protect my job (fingers crossed).
So within the next few weeks or months I hope to have this site (blog.danielmorgan.name) mothballed, a public site where I don't hide my identity but only use it for "safe" things like sharing information with friends and family (www.danielmorgan.name) as well as a public site where I write whatever the F I want and don't worry about anything because I keep it as close to anonymous as I possibly can (nonserviamergofiatlux.blogspot.com). Win-win-win.
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