BlogBack Reader Outted

An art blogger has questioned my failure to identify Rob Krulak, a CultureGrrl reader who contributed a BlogBack about my Gary Tinterow posts.
Krulak didn’t identify himself in his e-mail, but now freely permits me to say that he is, indeed, senior development officer for campaign and institutional gifts at the Brooklyn Museum. Until he got outted in the blogosphere, I myself hadn’t know of Krulak’s museum creds. I just knew that his views were intelligently expressed and worth sharing. And that was enough.
My general policy has been not to ask for the professional affiliations of my BlogBack readers, unless they choose to identify themselves in their e-mails to me. (Museum luminaries who blogback, such as Max Anderson and Tom Hoving, obviously must be identified.) Perhaps I do need to rethink this. But I don’t want to discourage readers from leaping into the fray, by adding new hurdles. I need some more time to ponder this! (Perhaps IDs should be optional, at the contributor’s discretion.)
COMING NEXT: A Take on the Tate (and other European hot spots).