Let's play hide the baby

Last week, the birth of a son (and future blogger) to Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan reminded us of another famous Web personality who ~~tried~~had a colleague try, bizarrely, to claim that the mom-to-be's pregnancy was "off the record." (Memo to other would-be secret-keepers: "Off the record" is always a matter of mutual agreement between reporter and source, not something you can declare unilaterally.) We asked for guesses on who it was, and you had lots of good ones. Now it's time to vote, picking out the baby-hiders from among these glamorous A-list bloggers. Pictures of the people you've speculated about, and a poll, after the jump.

The contestants: Alaina Browne and Anil Dash, Heather Powazek Champ and Derek Powazek, Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield

Jennifer Granick and Brad Stone, Maryam and Robert Scoble, and Ben and Mena Trott

(Photos by Anil Dash, edyson, granick, jacksonwest, Scott Beale / Laughing Squid, and simoncast)

1:26 PM on Wed Jul 11 2007
By Owen Thomas
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Choire at 01:36 PM on 07/11/07
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Oooh, I know, I know! There's really only one couple on this list who would say such a thing. How adorable. And I hope their little bundle grows up to be taller than five feet and less pale than absolute ivory-white!
beepboopbomp at 03:12 PM on 07/11/07
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Actually, I know for sure Jennifer and Brad are expecting, but I don't know that they're trying to surpress it at all.
Snarkosaurus at 03:28 PM on 07/11/07
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Ben will be a great daddy.
hchamp at 03:51 PM on 07/11/07
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i would like to post that i'm just fat, not pregnant.
sidhudgens at 04:39 PM on 07/11/07
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This is CEO-level behavior, which reduces it to two. Caterina Fake has been writing about her pregnancy, so I'm going with her over Mena.

Random trivia: Both Caterina and Mena have interviews in the recent book "Founders at Work."
sidhudgens at 04:56 PM on 07/11/07
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I feel sort of dirty having posted that. Mena and Ben seem so incredibly nice, and Caterina probably is too....
anildash at 07:49 PM on 07/11/07
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Sigh. I can't believe I'm not winning this popularity contest! Oh, wait... what?

Mena asks me to post a comment on her behalf since she doesn't have a commenter account:

"You know this isn't the way I wanted Ben to find out. Thanks Owen. Now you owe me something off my registry."