The dark side of blogging…

(warning… rant ahead.)

I really don’t know how to start this. I am a bit amused and a little irritated. Irritated that a person would dedicate a blog just to insinuate, harangue and trash on fellow Filipino bloggers without cause or reason. Amused in the sense that this person still keeps on reading the blogs that he so eloquently spurn. C’mon boy, and whoever told you to read our blogs anyway? Haven’t you gotten enough reads about adsense, recipes, seo or podcasting that you still have to read our crappy blogs?

I would have passed it off as a humor blog pretending to make something out of nothing with the author indulging himself in an ocean of self-deprecating wit. It must have bruised his ego to learn that he’s not alone in the blogosphere. Or shoud I say he feels that his efforts are not being recognized by the blogging community despite his best efforts to churn out dozens and dozens of splogs each month.

But despite his best efforts to cloak himself with anonimity, no one is truly anonymous on the internet. So let me give this guy some words of advise:

If you want to hide your identity on the internet…

• Make sure that your domain is cloaked by a private whois.
• Don’t use the same Registrar and hosting provider to host all your blogs.
• Don’t link your anonymous blogs from your pseudo-public blogs.
• Don’t ever post your public email on your anonymous blog.
• Try to change your style of writing.
• Don’t use the same nick/handle to reply to comments on your anonymous blog.
• Don’t use the same AdSense account on your public blog and your anonymous blog. Haven’t you heard of the publisher ID?
• Add a no-cache meta in your blog header so Google would not have a copy of your old blog.

I guess you’re not as smart as you think you are, huh? Oh, and yes, you can blog about this one too. We’ll be waiting.

And what’s with that MySpace profile? Can you spell Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?