Knowing You, Knowing Us
25 Aug, 09 | by Iain Brassington
It’s all very well to vanish off to a conference and put faces to names… but that can’t help with the important questions, like What does the internet think of you?. Fortunately, this little app can tell you. Type in your name, and it’ll do the Google version of a genetic fingerprint.
In the interests of openness, here’s what the internet thinks of your humble editors:
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Possibly by virtue of having a more frequently-occuring name than either of the other two, David seems to have the most interesting “genome”, and I’m really rather dull compared to both - although I’m about as illegal as social, which must be because of all those parties.
Just fyi, I ran my name three times in the space of three minutes with three different results…(the second time because I couldn’t quite remember the first and the third time because the second was so different from what I could remember!). Endless fun for narcissistic academics!
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August 25th, 2009 at 1:15 pm