Authoring a site under a pseudonym

[Greg]

I'm looking at authoring (yet another) review site.

For my Wordpress topic site, I use my real identity.

I know we have the option of using a pseudonym, and I like the idea of including a picture as well.

Now, I don't really want to use my picture for this.

Would it be improper, immoral or just downright wrong to use a picture from places like iStockPhoto or even Flikr Creative Commons for this?

[angienewton]

No I don't think it's a problem at all. If you have old pictures of yourself that look different from what you look like currently, you could us that. You could also just use a logo instead.

[Lynn Terry]

I've used older, obscure photos of myself like Angie mentioned. The only problem with using a stock photo is that others may use it elsewhere. In the case that the same person sees both, they'll assume either association (with that other site) or "fraud".

[jgant]

I've faced the same dilemma. I bought some iStock photos of other people and used them as a profile pic, but it just didn't sit well with me. I took them down and resorted to no photo but continued with a pseudonym.

[Kayla Fay]

I'm using an old picture of myself, but I'm changing it to be a cartoonized picture of me. At least I think I am. Haven't seen the cartoon yet!

[Greg]

I'm using an old picture of myself, but I'm changing it to be a cartoonized picture of me. At least I think I am. Haven't seen the cartoon yet!

I think we're all in the funny papers, we just don't know it.

I have a couple of references for people that do the cartoon thing. I haven't used them but their work looks pretty good.

I'd be happy to PM them if you'd like.