December 29, 2004
Unmasked
Well, you go away for less than a week, and everything falls apart. Worlds are in turmoil! Families ripped apart! Dogs and cats are living together! (my apologies to Bill Murray) And yes, blawgers are being unmasked.
One blawg I occasionally read, Anonymous Lawyer, was purportedly about the life of a lawyer at a large law firm on the west coast. As it turns out, it was really written by veteran blawger Jeremy Blachman, a 3L at Harvard Law School (you'll need to sign up for a free pass to read the New York Times in order to access the article. But you should have one of those passes, anyway. You know. To make you feel smart.)
I never believed Anonymous Lawyer was who he said he was, and judging by the comments, most of his readers didn't think so, either. However, I feel the same way about this situation as I did about the unmasking of Plain Layne -- I don't really care if the blogger is who they say they are as long as they can write well. For the sake of privacy (and sanity), I expect that bloggers fudge some facts about themselves so they don't end up with a million stalkers chasing them around creation.
The craziest part about this saga, in my opinion, is the level of press it received. Bloggers often attempt to out one another, but to be outed by The New York Times? Wow.
Posted by Kitty at December 29, 2004 09:29 AM
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