Continuations

The question as to what should represent people online has has generated some mighty fine posts and comments recently. Here is a short list of people strongly supporting some form of pseudonymity or even anonymity: - Caterina Fake: Anonymity and Pseudonyms in Social Software - Andy Weissman: Everybody wants to be special here (in praise of pseudonymity) - Jyri Engeström: untitled G+ post - Chris Pool / moot: 4chan Creator Doubles Down on Web Anonymity with Canvas (via The Atlantic) - Jillian ...

Yesterday was a fertile day for comments on comments: John Gruber, Bijan Sabet and then Marco Arment all provided interesting food for thought. For starters, I firmly believe that what someone chooses to do on their own blog is and should always be entirely their own decision. It is their property after all and nobody is forced to go there or interact with it. That includes the choices to have no comments at all, to have moderated comments, to allow comments *and* delete them after the fact (...