My boss asked me yesterday whether I wouldn't want to write my blog as part of the paper. Apparently they are finally going to follow through on what they've been talking about for a long time and have reporters' blogs that are actually linked to the D-H website.

I told him sure, although I told him I might actually want to start a blog separate from this one, as my "public" blog and have this one as my personal one.

It's a little weird. I actually started this blog as part of an article about blogging that I wrote for the D-H. I started it just so I could walk through the steps of setting up a blog and show readers how easy it was. After that, I wasn't really sure what to do with it. I kind of thought that people from work might read it, since I had written about it for the paper. But as far as I could tell, no one did. No comments, posted or verbal, about it at all. The only comments I ever got were from a) my husband; and b) complete strangers.

And I actually kind of liked that. I liked my seeming anonymity and I wrote some things complaining about work and about my life and whatnot that I may not have wanted my bosses to read. Much less...my grandma? My mother? All the people I know in town?

And then I linked to Arron and Devon and John and Stephanie's blogs,and so they all found my blog, and so there you have people that I actually know in real life reading my blog. And then Jen from work found my old story about blogs in the archives and read my blog, and mentioned it to Graham, and there you go...my blog is no longer underground.