Comments on: Hello old media, bloggers who don’t use their legal names aren’t “anonymous sources” http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070705/4621/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:52:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Single and bulk fake identity generator » Make You Go Hmm http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070705/4621/#comment-605948 Single and bulk fake identity generator » Make You Go Hmm Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:31:27 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070705/4621/#comment-605948 [...] Don’t want to use your real name blogging and elsewhere online like Thomas Hawk? No problem, you could be Jewel B. Day, George Smith, Bobby Clutts or Marie Daggett. I’d rather read a comment here from Wayne Stallworth than Anonymous (another good possible usage). Need a pen name for that great novel you’re writing? Now you know where to go. [...] […] Don’t want to use your real name blogging and elsewhere online like Thomas Hawk? No problem, you could be Jewel B. Day, George Smith, Bobby Clutts or Marie Daggett. I’d rather read a comment here from Wayne Stallworth than Anonymous (another good possible usage). Need a pen name for that great novel you’re writing? Now you know where to go. […]

]]> By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070705/4621/#comment-599188 TDavid Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:14:56 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070705/4621/#comment-599188 Actually I made that exact point, Kent, in the "Mini-Microsoft: credible or coward?" post linked in the related posts above. The job site concerns reminds me of Mini Microsoft, we still don't know what the motives are there. Will we ever? Dunno. That's my description of an anonymous source and yet it's funny that I remember one reporter say he knew who Mini Microsoft was but wouldn't reveal who he was a la deep throat. Now there's a twist. Actually I made that exact point, Kent, in the “Mini-Microsoft: credible or coward?” post linked in the related posts above. The job site concerns reminds me of Mini Microsoft, we still don’t know what the motives are there. Will we ever? Dunno. That’s my description of an anonymous source and yet it’s funny that I remember one reporter say he knew who Mini Microsoft was but wouldn’t reveal who he was a la deep throat. Now there’s a twist.

]]> By: Kent http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070705/4621/#comment-599185 Kent Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:01:57 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070705/4621/#comment-599185 Yes, that's my real name, though I have <A HREF="http://www.newsome.org/2007/04/signs-of-blog-addiction.shtml">written about the limitations</A> that come with using it. I don't think it makes a bit of difference that someone uses a pen name. What matters is credibility and reputation, which is earned based on the content not the by-line. If fact, I think an argument could be made that someone writing under a pen name may, if fact, be more reliable since he or she is not bound to the reaction to a post or opinion at the office or job-site. Yes, that’s my real name, though I have written about the limitations that come with using it.

I don’t think it makes a bit of difference that someone uses a pen name. What matters is credibility and reputation, which is earned based on the content not the by-line. If fact, I think an argument could be made that someone writing under a pen name may, if fact, be more reliable since he or she is not bound to the reaction to a post or opinion at the office or job-site.

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