“anyone who adopts a pseudonym loses a certain amount of street cred” [Daypop Top 40]
This guy is attempting tactics straight out of Orson Scott Card’s books. He even calls his weblog “Shadow of the Hegemon”. In the books, Peter Wiggin & his sister Valentine use the online pseudonyms Demosthenes & Locke to hide the fact that they were kids and ultimately change the course of history.