There can be only one.
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Mar. 8th, 2007 | 01:33 pm
Somehow a google search for diane trout found this blog, as the 4th hit.
I'm not quite sure how the bot did it as I was partially avoiding my last name. my best guess is that my del.icio.us/diane page had my full name in its profile and google figured out the relationship from the link I added. Or perhaps I posted a comment in a blogger comment with my name and linked it to this blog.
Unfortunately the first link hit is someone who is not me.
This must be fixed--there can be only one Diane Trout (on the Internet).
(However there are only two hits on the first page that aren't me, and if you look through the following pages, they are again mostly me. I got bored after counting that about 15 of the first 70 hits weren't me.)
I do, however, want to dominate the first page of google hits.
Also since my pages have been linked, I'm going to give in and link to my work stuff. This does have some risk that employers wont like me and wont hire me because of being queer or something. But since being better known also up the chances of getting hired, I'm just going to pretend that those forces will work out in the end. I find it easier to only manage one brand.
I'm not quite sure how the bot did it as I was partially avoiding my last name. my best guess is that my del.icio.us/diane page had my full name in its profile and google figured out the relationship from the link I added. Or perhaps I posted a comment in a blogger comment with my name and linked it to this blog.
Unfortunately the first link hit is someone who is not me.
This must be fixed--there can be only one Diane Trout (on the Internet).
(However there are only two hits on the first page that aren't me, and if you look through the following pages, they are again mostly me. I got bored after counting that about 15 of the first 70 hits weren't me.)
I do, however, want to dominate the first page of google hits.
Also since my pages have been linked, I'm going to give in and link to my work stuff. This does have some risk that employers wont like me and wont hire me because of being queer or something. But since being better known also up the chances of getting hired, I'm just going to pretend that those forces will work out in the end. I find it easier to only manage one brand.
Hmm
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markcronan
date: Mar. 8th, 2007 11:51 pm (UTC)
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Re: Hmm
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alienghic
date: Mar. 9th, 2007 12:04 am (UTC)
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And your net foo is powerful, with the being quoted on wikipedia.
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Re: Hmm
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markcronan
date: Mar. 9th, 2007 12:45 am (UTC)
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It's odd they chose to curate it. Usually, that is reserved for things of long-term usage that are frequently searched. I suppose it is possible the movie 300 was searched often with the word review, and mine was the only one for almost a year that came up.
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aerynvale
date: Mar. 9th, 2007 12:02 am (UTC)
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None of the hits on the first page for my name are me. I think they're mostly my ancestors from the 1800s. Also there are a few military dudes who definitely are not me.
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alienghic
date: Mar. 9th, 2007 07:25 am (UTC)
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I've been watching one of my friends C Titus Brown. He is kind of a blowhard, but has a good track record of making stuff.
His public identity is actually been pretty successful for him, he gave 4 talks at PyCon, and has gotten several consulting gigs and book deals out of his combination of skill and connections.
Theoretically I could try maintaining separate professional and personal identities, but that confuses me too much. Not to mention there's a pretty big overlap between what I do for work and what I do for fun.
To move further in my "career" I need to make and maintain contacts, but since I don't really dealing with people I want to computer mediate that networking. Which seems to suggest the public identity (assuming I actually do cool thing) is a viable strategy.
(On an other hand there's a bit of me who thinks I'm being a giant poser for thinking of myself in terms of managing my brand identity).
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aerynvale
date: Mar. 9th, 2007 04:35 pm (UTC)
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alienghic
date: Mar. 9th, 2007 10:15 pm (UTC)
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You left your full name in a python code fragment
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vixter
date: Mar. 9th, 2007 05:03 am (UTC)
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I just googled myself. No LJ link but plenty of other crap.
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Re: You left your full name in a python code fragment
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alienghic
date: Mar. 9th, 2007 07:28 am (UTC)
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No LJ link but plenty of other crap.
Yeah, if you do any online communication its really easy to leave a giant searchable trail.
We've recreated that small town atmosphere, where everyone knows what everyone else is doing.
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secretslip
date: Mar. 9th, 2007 06:35 pm (UTC)
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I completely understand.
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