We’ve had our arguments in the Delaware blogosphere about anonymous blogging, sometimes with outings, sometimes not. But at the end of it all, I believe we’ve agreed to disagree.
Not so in Alaska.
Apparently an Alaska State Representative took it upon himself to out the creative force behind Mudflats. Shouldn’t a state representative have more to do than out a blogger? As Alaska Dispatch points out that authors have used pen names or aliases for hundreds of years. Female writers have used pen names for a long time so that male-dominated society would take their writing seriously. Eric Blair used a pen name as well as Chloe Wofford, Howard O’Brien and David Cornwell.
Pen names on the internet are here to stay and as Progressive Alaska points out, this yellow-bellied state rep might have broken several laws.