it is always interesting when your online reputation is your actual CV. It used to be just for those in Who’s Who or major celebs to keep press cuttings. Now we can all do it, even us “minor” celebrities.
For a good few years I have always pointed people back to things I have blogged or to my links showreel on delicious or just let them Google me. Usually I suggest that they Google epredator as that handle has much more unique value than my full name.
@Moehlert just tweeted this MIT data mining visualization (via @Jowyang, via @debs…) of where we crop up online in various forms. So I thought I would run it a few times with epredator, Ian Hughes and epredator Hughes just to be on the safe side.
The results show lots of hits for Ian Hughes, but of course as it was looping through it was clear many of them were not me 🙂
I like the epredator hughes results more as they were generally about articles and references in combination. They show a very large result on fashion, which I can only assume is conversations about avatars, sports is probably Wimbledon and books and news will fit back to the delicious links.
Give it a go, its like an abstract visual version of Wordle
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