Anonymous wrote:Google Sleuth here - I don't think any of this is a publicity stunt. I think Muffy and Clark are very sensitive and trying to protect their brand and their blog..I think they do make $ off of their blog and they don't want to be outed as fakers. (It is prob. the majority of their income!)

I did the sleuthing for fun...I have no connection to Muffy at all. Just FYI.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jeff, I don't think you should be called a coward, but I just googled Muffy Aldrich and got more than 300,000 hits. And that is not following all the google suggestions... ie, fake, real name etc ect. I think you might want to keep this thread in case there is anyone out there who does not understand that once you have a blog with many many readers, there are going to be privacy issues...

It does make me wonder if it's a publicity stunt. I'd never heard of the blog, Googled it and saw that it wasn't anything that I'd follow since I don't . Then, I read a few more posts on this, and did the search about identity that a pp suggested. Well, the third Google result is a link to her site where she catalogs all of the Google searches under her blog name, so she's not shying away from it, and the post garnered more comments than her latest post. I just heard about Ryan Holiday's Trust Me I'm Lying, so I'm wondering how clueless I really am about publicity and truth online. Maybe Muffy is brilliant.

Anonymous wrote:Jeff, I don't think you should be called a coward, but I just googled Muffy Aldrich and got more than 300,000 hits. And that is not following all the google suggestions... ie, fake, real name etc ect. I think you might want to keep this thread in case there is anyone out there who does not understand that once you have a blog with many many readers, there are going to be privacy issues...

Anonymous wrote:Wait, huh? Who is muffy Aldridge?

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd say more people have focused on Muffy because the original thread was deleted than would ever have happened if it had not been.

I saw the thread but never even bothered to click on it but this whole charade is what caused me to look at the cached pages of the deleted thread. I suspect that there are many others like me: sort of the appeal of "forbidden fruit"!

Never even heard of Muffy Aldrich or her blog until now.

What you really mean is that had it not been for this thread, you would not have gotten interested. I think the lesson is that I shouldn't have as much patience with threads like this as I have shown in this case. BTW, as far as I can tell, the OP of this thread has not been back. Who is the real coward?

Anonymous wrote:Jeff really should out OP.

Anonymous wrote:Surely someone with several personal blogs has put thenselves out there as a public figure though, yes?

Anonymous wrote:I'd say more people have focused on Muffy because the original thread was deleted than would ever have happened if it had not been.

I saw the thread but never even bothered to click on it but this whole charade is what caused me to look at the cached pages of the deleted thread. I suspect that there are many others like me: sort of the appeal of "forbidden fruit"!

Never even heard of Muffy Aldrich or her blog until now.

Anonymous wrote:Crap!! I missed that thread! Damn!