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Another day, another formerly anonymous blogger: Tomorrow's Observer will identify the writer behind the irreverent life-as-a-lawyer blog Opinionistas as 27-year-old Melissa Lafsky. Lafsky recently resigned from an associate position at Littler Mendelson to pursue a career as a writer; a November article in the Times about the then-anonymous lawyer said she was planning to pen a novel based on the "characters" featured in her blog (Littler employees will be thrilled).

Judging from her observational blogging, we've no doubt that Lafsky is capable of putting forth a solid piece of literature. And say what you will about the blog-to-book trajectory, but Miss Opinionista has some serious balls to quit her day job to pursue writing. What we find ridiculously amusing, however, is that Lafsky's "outing" will be orchestrated as a formal unveiling in the Observer.

When did de-anonymizing bloggers become such a THING? (We're looking at you, TMFTML.) Is there some sort of internerd law that dictates all anonymous bloggers must eventually reveal themselves through a contorted ritual of self-referential blog posts and media publicity? We thought that crap always came after the book deal. If that's not the case, then Gawker is ready to reveal itself as being secretly written by a chimpanzee named Puddles.

A Blog Reborn [Opinionistas]
Melissa [Friendster]
Lawyers Online; Blogging the Firm [NYT]