And we’re back!

By Tal-Anna Szlenski

We’re back, and with changes as to how we’re going to run this blog in the future. 

As some might have noticed, the last post on this blog was submitted almost a month ago. This lack of posts was not because we didn’t have anything to say. I mean, it was UK election time! Of course we had something to say. And a lot of it.

Yet it posed a problem. You see, within this fine group of people contributing to the blog, many found themselves in a bit of a dilemma. Most, if not all, of us are – quite unsurprisingly –  established, or seeking to be, in the realms of politics, journalism and communication. We had to admit that blog posts of a controversial nature under personal names could compromise any professional reputation, with the click of a Google search.

Hence, our solution to this problem, and the way the blog will be run in the future looks like this:

The list of contributors to the blog shall remain with our names. Yet we have all chosen a internet moniker which we will use consistently with our posts. With this system we hope to retain accountability, as well as a mild degree of anonymity.  

This resolution of ours  is perhaps not perfect nor fool-proof, but it serves our purpose in this conoundrum so typical for the so-called internet age.

With this new meassure many more posts should be emerging, and we look forward to explore how our solution takes form in practice. Of course we are interested in hearing any other suggestions, or thoughts on what you guys reckon about this? Please do share.

As such, consider this the last ‘named’ post on the blog.

Happy friday!