{"id":14020,"date":"2013-08-19T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14020"},"modified":"2013-08-19T03:00:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T08:00:12","slug":"my-voice-is-my-passport-verify-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14020","title":{"rendered":"My Voice is My Passport. Verify Me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14011\">wrote on Friday<\/a>, there&#8217;s a potential danger in thinking that your experience is typical or widespread. I ran across a topic where this applies \u2014 online pseudonyms. I obviously don&#8217;t; I work in a small slice of applied science, so I think it would be hard to put up repeated posts about timekeeping and not be found out, but more importantly, I&#8217;m not in a situation where need to hide who I am. But that isn&#8217;t true of all bloggers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/scicurious\/2013\/08\/17\/tell-me-again-how-pseudonyms-are-lame\/\">Tell me again how pseudonyms are lame<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/membracid.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/17\/pseudonyms-are-essential-online\/\">Pseudonyms are essential online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s important to draw the distinction between an anonymous online presence and a pseudonym. A pseudonym at least presents a consistent persona. Even though you don&#8217;t know the person&#8217;s name, there is an identity associated with the ideas. Criticism aimed at anonymous writing doesn&#8217;t necessarily apply to someone using a pseudonym. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote on Friday, there&#8217;s a potential danger in thinking that your experience is typical or widespread. I ran across a topic where this applies \u2014 online pseudonyms. I obviously don&#8217;t; I work in a small slice of applied &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14020\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}