For similar reasons, Evan of Legal Underground declines to blogroll any blog that lacks a blogroll – because it is not part of the community, and therefore lacks a certain legitimacy and belonging-ness, as I understand it.

As for my (anonymous) (or shall we say, pseudonymous) blawg, I stand behind it, but not with the name I practice under. The why is: fear of publicity, of distraction in my professional career (I am a lawyer in Philadelphia), and therefore of prejudice to my clients’ claims.

If you’d like to discuss whether my own ano (or pseudo-)nymity precludes being taken seriously, I invite you to drop me a line at my e-mail address, which works. A single line will do, I’ll respond.

I also urge you to glance at my post in the last few weeks, which I dubbed the “Carnival of the Anonymous,” and which compiled some of the blogospheric wisdom and wit on anonymous blogging and commenting, as well as some of the anonymous superstars, several of whom are worth either blogrolling or at least checking out.

The point in your second paragraph impresses me immensely, and relates to something I just read about voiced and publicly disclosed commitments. Along those lines, I haven’t updated in a few weeks, what with a trial going on and another shortly. But, many of my regular readers know my Real Life Identity, so that explanation (or excuse?) fizzles.

Anonymously yours,

Eh Nonymous

Unused & Probably Unusable Blawg