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Anil Dash has been blogging since 1999. He's been a part of the Movable Type team from the earliest days. As you'd expect from a man who has lived in the trenches for so long, his blog is excellent. It's well worth a visit if you haven't been there already. I was recently reading through his 2002 blog recommendations and marvelling at the hardy few who survived through five long years of the internet. The way I figure, that's equivalent to thirty-five people years.

But I also noticed something interesting lodged in the sidebar of his blog. A long list of Anil Dash's many online identities, spread across no less than 29 different websites:

<Anil Dash's many online identities>

Laurel Krahn created one of the first 30 weblogs back in 1998. Her home page paints a similarly fractured picture of her online identity. I count 21 different websites that represent some part of Laurel:

<Laurel Krahn's many online identities>

There's no way any one person could truly keep these 20 or 30 websites up to date. So which one of these websites represents the real Laurel Krahn, the real Anil Dash? Or do all these tiny fragments of identity cumulatively sum to a whole? Browsing around their sites, it's fairly easy to determine what is getting the lion's share of attention, and pare away the neglected parts. Still, it's unclear.

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