Who Is That Masked Man (or Woman)?

An argument was made at one of the sessions at the Va. Blogger Conference that anonymous commenting was wrong but pseudonymous blogging was not. It is a distinction without a difference, in my opinion and of some others there. I don’t regularly read the pseudonymous blogger in question, though I did just now and found his or her recent post interesting. Still, considering that many of the same bloggers in another session thought what they did was an important addition to the journalistic record, how would they feel if newspapers carried anonymous bylines in all their stories?