When blogging first started out much of what was written was done anonymously with made up names. Over time we seem to have shifted naturally to using our real names but in some cases that anonymity was something some bloggers felt they needed to keep.

Those days may be falling by the wayside as more and more anonymous bloggers are finding themselves targets of court cases around the world, trying to strip the safety of anonymity from them. Case in point is Orwell Prize winner Nightjack in Britain who was recently unmasked because of a decision of the High Court in that country.

Nightjack for those who aren’t familiar with the story is a British police officer who wrote about his job -  the good and the bad. His blog is gone now having been deleted in the wake of the legal decision. In part the decision said that blogging was "essentially a public rather than a private activity" and therefore his name could be made public.

I wonder how many more of these type of pages will start showing up on the web as we lose great and valuable voices.