A decision

I was thinking about whether to make my blog non-anonymous. Then people would be able to find my Thoughts by Googling me, and alternately I could share my blogaddress with lots o' folk and not worry would they mention my RealName when forwarding it on to others (as presumably they would, after having read my Intriguing Thoughts).

But on the other hand StalkerRisk and all that.

So I came to the following conclusion: I will limit my postings to things that, if my identity were to be revealed, would neither compromise me personally / professionally nor offend or damage others. Not that I will cease to be Vulnerable. No indeed, for this is the essence of what we are trying to accomplish here. But if the Wall Street Journal were to publish tomorrow an article with the headline,

"RationAlley is the blog of AlleyCat"

(but using of course my RealName, as no doubt you realize I mean by the time you've followed my train of thought this far), then I wouldn't have to run for cover because the Thoughts it contains would be ones, though personal in nature, that wouldn't mean ruin or disaster in case they came to be Generally Known.

I name this post "decision" but please consider that a provisional situation. I may yet change my mind, again.

P.S. All due respect to those who require absolute privacy with respect to their blogs, as to those who blog under their own RealNames, each for their various reasons.