world clockI have been very active in many discussion forums in the search industry over the past several years.

At the SMX conference, Danny joked in the last session that I may go into a forum, under an alias, spill the beans on that session, so that I can blog about it. I.e. I won't blog about things that are not public, more about that at my Search Engine Roundtable Code of Ethics.

Just in case some people didn't think Danny was joking, I want to clarify my position on creating multiple aliases to disguise myself.

I have never created multiple aliases to hide my name at these forums. I never plan on it either. I only participate under one alias, and that is under the name "rustybrick." I have created other accounts to protect other names, such as my personal name and blog name, but I do not post under them. In addition, I have set up test accounts at my own forums, but those are just test names for testing purposes.

There are many people I know that set up aliases in forums so that people won't know who they are. I have nothing against people doing that. But I have never done that, nor do I ever plan on doing that in the future.

Side note: how about use of that image for a post like this. ;-)