30
Jun 2011
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Living Under a Rock

I just read a blog post that stated "Unless you're living under a rock, you know about..." I don't live under a rock, but I also didn't know -- until this morning -- about the subject at hand.

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An observation: Many in the online community seem to think that stepping away for a day or two makes one less viable -- or less knowledgeable -- about the activities therein. It seems to dilute the credibility of those engaged online when they don't spend EVERY moment staring at the screen and talking (at?) (to?) (about?) the rest of the online world.

I also wonder: If those that don't live under a rock already know about the subject being written... why write about it at all? It seems that we all know, so the post would be redundant.

Take some time away. Take care of real world tasks. Shut the lid on the laptop and breathe. It will all be here when you come back.

Photo Rock, Water III by Martin Burns

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20
Aug 2009
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My Personus Result

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I'm not certain what this is supposed to say about my online identity, but I can say that it is a bit off. Reasons for the "mis-characterization" of my online identity can be seen in the information about Personas project site.

I found it interesting that there is a huge block for sports, but I rarely mention or engage in conversations about sports. It also shows the education section to be quite large. That doesn't surprise me at all, as I always mention "safety education" or "life safety educator" in bio sections. I can understand the section for management, but don't understand why there is such a small area for music. There's a section labeled "illegal." What's that all about? What are these other Rich Palmer fellows doing?

The Personas project site says:
Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It usessophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
 

Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person - to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.
 

In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is our indispensable but far from infallible assistant.Personas demonstrates the computer's uncanny insights and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name. It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world, where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant.
 

Personas was created by Aaron Zinman, with help from Alex Dragulescu, Yannick Assogba and Judith Donath.

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