Comments on: How the Internet sees me, apparently http://stilgherrian.com/personal/how-the-internet-sees-me-apparently/ All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive les poissons rouges sauvages! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:24:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sabian http://stilgherrian.com/personal/how-the-internet-sees-me-apparently/#comment-29187 Sabian Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:15:34 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5168#comment-29187 I must admit that I ran it twice because I couldn't believe that after 10 or 15 years of online writing, I came up an even 50/50 split between aggression and arts. That combo never came up again... I must admit that I ran it twice because I couldn’t believe that after 10 or 15 years of online writing, I came up an even 50/50 split between aggression and arts.

That combo never came up again…

]]> By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/personal/how-the-internet-sees-me-apparently/#comment-29186 Stilgherrian Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:46:59 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5168#comment-29186 <strong>@Sabian:</strong> My name is <em>definitely</em> unique globally, and I'm seeing different results on each run too. Even if it's collecting the data live on each run, the Internet's knowledge of me can't change <em>that</em> fast. So is it randomised in some way? Or is it all rubbish? And do I even care? @Sabian: My name is definitely unique globally, and I’m seeing different results on each run too. Even if it’s collecting the data live on each run, the Internet’s knowledge of me can’t change that fast. So is it randomised in some way? Or is it all rubbish? And do I even care?

]]> By: Pernille http://stilgherrian.com/personal/how-the-internet-sees-me-apparently/#comment-29184 Pernille Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:43:56 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5168#comment-29184 @ Stiigherrian: Hm, that's a rethorial question :-) @ Sean; Yes. The idea is great, but needs to be refined. Or maybe I don't get it :-) Pernille @ Stiigherrian: Hm, that’s a rethorial question :-)
@ Sean; Yes.

The idea is great, but needs to be refined. Or maybe I don’t get it :-)

Pernille

]]> By: Sabian http://stilgherrian.com/personal/how-the-internet-sees-me-apparently/#comment-29179 Sabian Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:08:04 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5168#comment-29179 I get different results every time I use my real name -- and I'm fairly certain I'm the only "Sabian Wilde" I get different results every time I use my real name — and I’m fairly certain I’m the only “Sabian Wilde”

]]> By: Sean Carmody http://stilgherrian.com/personal/how-the-internet-sees-me-apparently/#comment-29169 Sean Carmody Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:09:12 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5168#comment-29169 I think @Pernille means "my two year old could have done that". I think @Pernille means “my two year old could have done that”.

]]> By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/personal/how-the-internet-sees-me-apparently/#comment-29168 Stilgherrian Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:00:35 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5168#comment-29168 <strong>@Pernille:</strong> When you say, "It’s all made-up rubbish!", you mean "It's all Art", yes? ;) @Pernille: When you say, “It’s all made-up rubbish!”, you mean “It’s all Art”, yes? ;)

]]> By: Pernille http://stilgherrian.com/personal/how-the-internet-sees-me-apparently/#comment-29164 Pernille Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:57:47 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5168#comment-29164 Interesting. I did the same thing as some of the above - tried different versions of my online identities, including trying the same name several times. My sir name however contains a unique Danish letter, and it doesn't accept it... It’s all made-up rubbish! Pernille Interesting. I did the same thing as some of the above – tried different versions of my online identities, including trying the same name several times. My sir name however contains a unique Danish letter, and it doesn’t accept it…

It’s all made-up rubbish!

Pernille

]]> By: Bob Bain http://stilgherrian.com/personal/how-the-internet-sees-me-apparently/#comment-29160 Bob Bain Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:26:31 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5168#comment-29160 In my case there are too many people who share the name I use online and as the commentary that gives rise to the graph flashes by I saw only one direct reference to myself. People with my name have an assortment of roles on-line. In your case sport moves in conjunction with the information it finds as it trawls the net and I guess if you really want to know why it rates you highly on sport you need some way of capturing the information flow as it defines your profile. It's too fast for me. In my case there are too many people who share the name I use online and as the commentary that gives rise to the graph flashes by I saw only one direct reference to myself.

People with my name have an assortment of roles on-line.

In your case sport moves in conjunction with the information it finds as it trawls the net and I guess if you really want to know why it rates you highly on sport you need some way of capturing the information flow as it defines your profile. It’s too fast for me.

]]> By: THIS is what the internet thinks of me?! | Laura @ LRKane http://stilgherrian.com/personal/how-the-internet-sees-me-apparently/#comment-29144 THIS is what the internet thinks of me?! | Laura @ LRKane Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:11:43 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5168#comment-29144 [...] There's a bit of balance across a heap of topics (how very Gemini of me) and the big red bit makes sense considering I used my (waiting-to-be-renamed) online moniker. I also tried out my REAL name, but it was right off the mark — a large chunk was dedicated to sport. Excuse me? Ummmm, no. Interestingly, Stilgherrian had a similar experience. [...] [...] There's a bit of balance across a heap of topics (how very Gemini of me) and the big red bit makes sense considering I used my (waiting-to-be-renamed) online moniker. I also tried out my REAL name, but it was right off the mark — a large chunk was dedicated to sport. Excuse me? Ummmm, no. Interestingly, Stilgherrian had a similar experience. [...]

]]> By: Sean Carmody http://stilgherrian.com/personal/how-the-internet-sees-me-apparently/#comment-29143 Sean Carmody Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:13:38 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5168#comment-29143 Stifling dissent now? Stifling dissent now?

]]> By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/personal/how-the-internet-sees-me-apparently/#comment-29141 Stilgherrian Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:54:34 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5168#comment-29141 It's Art. Stop questioning me. Or them. It’s Art. Stop questioning me. Or them.

]]> By: Snarky Platypus http://stilgherrian.com/personal/how-the-internet-sees-me-apparently/#comment-29139 Snarky Platypus Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:01:16 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5168#comment-29139 It has pretty colours. That's the most meaning I could get out of it. It has pretty colours. That’s the most meaning I could get out of it.

]]> By: Sean Carmody http://stilgherrian.com/personal/how-the-internet-sees-me-apparently/#comment-29138 Sean Carmody Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:53:12 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5168#comment-29138 It certainly sounds as though, at the very least, they're are counselling against reading anything very much into their analysis. Or anyone else's for that matter. It certainly sounds as though, at the very least, they’re are counselling against reading anything very much into their analysis. Or anyone else’s for that matter.

]]> By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/personal/how-the-internet-sees-me-apparently/#comment-29137 Stilgherrian Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:45:55 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5168#comment-29137 <strong>@Liz</strong> and <strong>@Sean Carmody:</strong> I'm amused by the <a href="http://personas.media.mit.edu/">explanation</a>: <bloclquote>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.</blockquote> And: <blockquote>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.</blockquote> Are they just saying it's all made-up rubbish? @Liz and @Sean Carmody: I’m amused by the explanation:

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.

And:

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.

Are they just saying it’s all made-up rubbish?

]]> By: Sean Carmody http://stilgherrian.com/personal/how-the-internet-sees-me-apparently/#comment-29135 Sean Carmody Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:03:58 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5168#comment-29135 Hmmm. There must be a soccer player by the name Sean Carmody, resulting in a ludicrously high sport score for me too. Hmmm. There must be a soccer player by the name Sean Carmody, resulting in a ludicrously high sport score for me too.

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