Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Where Am I?

Or more specifically, where am I online?

When I googled my full name in quotation marks, I got about 58 results. Most of them were for my website, my blog and other students' blogs from a class I took last semester, and a few were from the NaNoWriMo donations list. Interestingly enough, I got a link to this blog, but with the url that I had before I changed it about a week ago. I suppose the Google search bots haven't quite caught up to that change yet.

Now, if I google my name without any quotations, I get 5,190 results. Some of them are for CSI websites, because one of the main guys behind the show (writer? creator?) is Anthony Zuiker, who's distantly related to me. Apparently there's also a zuiker.com, though I don't think there's much -- if anything -- about my immediate family on there. The site was having issues, so I couldn't really see very much of what was on it.

Of course, there's a lot more of me online, but my real name isn't connected to any of it, so it doesn't show up. It's interesting to see what kinds of personas you project online, and how much of it really reflects who you are. For example, with me, most of the stuff online that has my full name attached is academic work. On the other hand, none of my hobby or fandom-related stuff has my name on it.

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