tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post2196995375102431059..comments2023-12-14T18:17:52.957-08:00Comments on The Train Wreck Love Life: he's the devil in disguise, a snake with blue eyes, and he only comes out at nightEmilly Orrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-50979797508360671092011-07-10T04:02:56.205-07:002011-07-10T04:02:56.205-07:00Would they count a newspaper article? I had that o...Would they count a newspaper article? I had that one published in the UK a while back...Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-70727378577503198002011-07-10T03:38:25.369-07:002011-07-10T03:38:25.369-07:00Well they say they'll accept a newspaper artic...Well they say they'll accept a newspaper article, part of the legal name change process involves filing a notice in a paper.. that establishes a paper trail link.. "doing business as".<br /><br />It's pretty inexpensive, and many places have newspapers dedicated JUST to that. (San Jose has one). you could take out a 10-20$ ad saying "so and so is doing business as Emilly Orr" and then it's legalized, legit, and above board.<br /><br />THEN if Google refuses to acknowledge it.. well then we get into the realm of true evil, not accepting "Charlie Sheen" or allowing people who have performed legal name changes.Winternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-66625609417027619182011-07-09T22:16:23.941-07:002011-07-09T22:16:23.941-07:00It's true. And while I know it, I know you mor...It's true. And while I know it, I know you more as Winter, and you resonate better to Winter.<br /><br />Does leave me pondering, though--what if I changed my legal name to match my SL name? It would then be my legal name, but who would I inform? Gmail wouldn't change. Blogger wouldn't change. Picasa wouldn't change. But I would have legally changed my name.<br /><br />I still don't get this push for real name/real accountability. I am plenty accountable. Just because I don't want every random creep knowing my home address--and hey, isn't there a clause in Google's Community Standards about not giving out personally identifying information to anyone? Why, <a href="http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=107107" rel="nofollow">yes there is</a>--now I'm suspect?<br /><br />That has never, <i>ever</i>, made sense to me.Emilly Orrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245643246821826101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135301473915671680.post-27365734262996802942011-07-09T22:11:20.577-07:002011-07-09T22:11:20.577-07:00The concern I've got, is that Picasa and Blogg...The concern I've got, is that Picasa and Blogger are part of the Google family, as is Youtube. And their grand desire to link up all-things-google under your Google! account...<br /><br />You guessed it, every blogger using a pen-name on blogger is potentially, I repeat POTENTIALLY affected. Every photographer using picasa, every artist using a stage name on YouTube.<br /><br />A well established internet personality like Daxflame, or Merton... or Banksy? But even more, how will this affect ACTORS?<br /><br />Is Carlos Irwin Estévez the person you want to find? or Charlie Sheen?<br /><br />I'm not a lawyer, and I think people's "call for lawsuits" is just ridiculous and unlikely to have any sort of a chance.<br /><br />But it begs a larger question for me, about Google's "Don't be evil" mantra, and this reminds me a lot of the "Your world, Your Imagination" phase ending at Second Life. <br /><br />I think that avatars, screen names, and isolated identities, inspired by movies like Hackers and the Matrix ("the other life is lived on the internet, where you go by the hacker name 'neo'")... are quickly being transformed from an official perspective into what Max Headroom called "Blanks", people living off the grid without documentation of any kind.<br /><br />I think we're seen by the big names (Facebook, and now Google) as sort of like Illegal Immigrants, or street punks, loitering around the 7-11, a nuisance to be chased off like rats.<br /><br />Unfortunately, being "people hiding behind false (adopted / undocumented) identities" we become an easy target.<br /><br />The biggest concern I have about all of this, is how many people in the gay and lesbian communities "change their names" or "go by" different names in the community than they do with their families. Of course.. we Transsexuals actually change our names, legally.. but will GooglePlus allow us to change our names? and will they allow us to remove "old" names we no longer want to be connected to?<br /><br />Ideally we'd be able to create as many public facings as we want (so long as they're not deception. I don't want to pretend I'm Charlie Sheen, I just want to be the Me's that people know.<br /><br />I lived with Izzy for something like 3 years. I doubt half the people in that house remember my real name.Winterhttp://www.eclectic-randomness.com/category/blog/noreply@blogger.com