This is not an anonymous blog. It’s googlenonymous.

I give it out to friends. I write about things that would easily out me to a careful observer. I’m not worried about total anonymity.

If I’m ever famous and influential, people will have this as a public record. That’s sort of impossible to get around. I mean, I guess if I wanted to be completely anonymous, I could have done it, but I didn’t. I like me. I want to share me. If you read this blog and know me, tell me you read it. That'd be cool.

But I am worried about a potential employer googling me and deciding that I’m an emo blog nerd who isn’t a serious [whatever position I’m applying for].

I remember long ago when either blogger wasn’t a part of Google, or at least before blogs started to explode; I wasn’t able to find a short term blog experiment I made with Google’s search engine. But today’s not the same. Google’s awesome, and it not only finds text in blogs, I think it prefers them. Google’s page ranking preferences are a big part of the bogging phenomenon, but that’s not what this post is about, really.

I just want to keep this blog from being the first thing people see when they google me. So my name isn’t on it. That doesn’t mean it’s anonymous. It’s not. Read above. But it is pseudo-anonymous, as some other bloggers might say. But I have a better term.

I’m googlenonymous. That’s right. I just invented a word! You heard it here first.

Instant Update: Damnit! this guy invented it already. Damnit. Whatever. His blog isn’t on blogger, so mine’ll show up higher when journalists and biographers look to the origin of the all-too-necessary word.