Pessoa, Walser: would they have blogged?

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Fernando Pessoa and Robert Walser both wrote obsessively: Walser, as was shown by the edition of Microscripts recently, wrote on anything he could find, handbills, tickets etc; Pessoa left chestfulls of papers, still being sifted.

If they had lived now, not then, would they have blogged instead? Was it simply the need to write that drove them, or was it the need to write secretly? If the opportunity had been available, would they have been just as content to write out in the open, or would they still have hoarded?

I admit I incline to the view that secrecy, or reserve might be a better expression, was an important part of their writing practice: so that even today they might still be furtive authors. But I am not sure.