On the internet, no one knows if you're a dog
Chigger, of blogdogs (alas defunct UPDATE: reinstated June 2006!), observed in February 2004,
I'm becoming increasingly concerned with the issue of identity theft online, and feel compelled to express some of my concerns. If you spend much time on the web, you soon realize that there are web sites written by dogs, and web sites written by humans about the dogs they live with. And that's all fine and good. But more and more what I’m finding is web postings that are identified as written by dogs, when in reality they are written by… yes, you guessed it… humans. . . .For starters, dogs never refer to any human as "Mom," "Mommie," "Mum" or any other human variation on the word bitch. We don’t use bizarre phrases like "T.T.ing" to refer to "taking a piss." And we certainly don’t lapse into some kind of mid-20th-Century-blackface-plantation-movie-pseudo-patois as a way to suggest that we’re not human. I quote: "Mum sez the evil vetman sez I should have a bath evvy WEEK with de medisin soap!!"
In today's Globe, Kristen Green has an article about the canine internet. somerville dog is honored to be included among the sites mentioned in the article.
Activity on somerville dog has been a little bit low of late: For more information about what's going on in Somerville, please visit the website of the Somerville Dog Owners Group (som|dog). We're walking with our dogs in the Somerville Memorial Day Parade! You can also see a slideshow of Somerville dogs on Dogster.
Strummer has a diary on Dogster. Give her a bone!