DON'T TELL MOM ABOUT MY BLOG!: The blogging phenomenon gets the Onion treatment. The piece is #1 at Blogdex and the Blogosphere seems to appreciate it, though I found it a tad condescending, especially the "100 regular readers" line. Are they jealous that blogs now have all the internet buzz that the Onion had three years ago and has since lost?
At any rate, my mother has known about my blog since the day I started, as do my boss, my grandma, and various co-workers of my father's. I don't really mind, but some other bloggers would- discovery by "the authorities" of their true identities could be a matter of life and death for Salam Pax or the Hasidic Rebel (the latter seems to have disappeared, so maybe he has been discovered…). And the pseudonymous "This Fish (Needs a Bicycle)" had to scour her archives for incriminating material the other week after her mother did discover her blog- which, now that I think about it, may be where the Onion got the idea.