If you've noticed, this is not a big gossip blog. However, I do from time to time get into the celebrity gossip mode when it is significantly newsworthy. For example, in recent months we have seen both Brittney and Paris show up here as objects of my ridicule. For that matter, one might even consider some of my political blogging to be gossip. And I do keep myself semi-anonymous so that I can comment freely on such issues. One thing I don't do is gossip about work here, because that would probably mean engaging in some very unprofessional behavior, literally "talking out of school" about my students and colleagues. That is a boundary I will not cross.

Speaking of my students, a number of them have been really excited by Gossip Girl on The CW. Since they are all into MySpace and FaceBook, they are fascinated with the notion that one anonymous individual could spread all the latest dirt online in complete anonymity. They say they’d like to out the Gossip Girl – and at least one indicates that she might come to an unpleasant end for “bein’ all up in everybody’s bidness.” Makes me wonder how long a real-life Gossip Girl would make it at my school.

Will the Gossip Girl be outed? Will it make a difference? That is something that we will have to see in future episodes!

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