Blog Anonymously

How would one store the long, random passwords for these e-mail and blogging accounts, given TAILS is so reluctant to save anything to disk?

This goes into the how, but to me the more interesting question is the 'why'.

Why should someone interact with something that the author doesn't throw his/her/their name into?

I only have one example of why; I'm a genuinely curious and open person and I like having my beliefs tested, some of my beliefs are nuanced enough that I sometimes break down my current beliefs and my reasons into blog posts.

Things that I think are dangerous or damaging especially so, and those are usually the most controversial things so it's more difficult for people to engage with a nuanced opinion.

In one case in a job interview I had a person bring up a blog post (I believe it was "On the Merits of Meritocracy" where I actually gave good arguments pro and against) and he spent the entire time telling me why I was wrong and that meritocracy was bad, citing Caroline Ada Ehmke's piece(s).[0]

Which, ironically I had cited extensively and was the impetus for the discussion. Nonetheless the experience left me feeling icky, the interviewer had ascribed a set of beliefs to me which I did not hold because he disengaged completely with the article and read only the headline.

This is a good reason to blog anonymously in my limited opinion; you're free to engage openly.

[0]: https://postmeritocracy.org/

Use a book? You can probably remember "Page 32, Line 7" is the passphrase for site N and you've got oodles of data to work with for generating the passphrase. You can probably even mark the passphrase itself if you have a lot of other marked passages in the book as if you were doing research. Probably want to carry 2-3 other marked books as well to avoid highlighting any specific one as "valuable".

(Disclaimer: I am not a spy, take advice from real spies before me.)

Interesting example from print media: The Economist doesn't have author names. Critique and appreciation have both been expressed over this, but I don't think there's an answer that will convince you.

> especially if they can correlate visits and posting times...

You could schedule posts so times will not correlate. Tumblr has a queue which you can use to post at regular intervals throughout the day.