Tina Brown, in the middle of a diatribe about treachery (citing the usual suspects: Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass, Lauren Weisberger, et. al) mentions none other than "famous" blogger Jonathan Van Gieson: "Perhaps the amping up of the vogue for treachery is the internet's fault. It makes everyone the star of their own media soap opera. In a piece in last Sunday's New York Times about the rash of 'bloggers' who pour uncensored play-by-plays of their private lives on to the web, one of them, a Brooklyn theatrical producer named Jonathan Van Gieson, pleasantly comments that he now gives his friends pseudonyms in his weblogs to 'toe the line between simple harmless betrayal of trust and nasty actionable libel.' (As in, 'let's get together tonight for a simple harmless betrayal of trust'.)" Disappointingly, I can't tell if she understood that it was a joke. I guess irony is harder to spot in the pages of the NYT.
The problem with being nice [Times2]