Here’s a pair of great (JWZ) posts (Kevin Marks) on the Nym Wars, in which Googlers, net users, and sensible people try to convince the G+ team that it’s insane to tell people that they must socialize using their “real names,” and to then try to adjudicate what a “real name” is. Both link out to the canonical essays produced to date on the subject, such as EFF and boyd, and add a lot of good context.