There are risks involved in outing yourself publicly, some of these risks may even pay off.
If you out yourself, you're held accountable to the general public. What if the guy running a blog about "the ease of quitting smoking" was a regular chainsmoker, or another dude running a weightloss blog was a big fat fucker? You have to commit to the blog posts and show some results, or people aren't going to consider you an authority on anything.
Blogging anonymously has it's upsides, it's great to have a private life, but among it's biggest downsides is that implies less commitment towards the goal and the speaker (more or less automatically) has less credibility.
If you out yourself, you're held accountable to the general public. What if the guy running a blog about "the ease of quitting smoking" was a regular chainsmoker, or another dude running a weightloss blog was a big fat fucker? You have to commit to the blog posts and show some results, or people aren't going to consider you an authority on anything.
Blogging anonymously has it's upsides, it's great to have a private life, but among it's biggest downsides is that implies less commitment towards the goal and the speaker (more or less automatically) has less credibility.