In a post this morning, Robert Scoble asks the intelligent question "what if we could enter things in search engines?" He asks the question in the context of finding information on other people or perhaps more importantly, others finding information about you. My friend Dorrian Porter inspired me to start blogging with a pretty simple observation that blogging is an opportunity to have input on the conversation about yourself on the internet. Put another way, would you rather people find you as a collection of quotes from a series of old press releases or would you rather have your personal blog bubble up to the top of the search results. Dorrian is doing a good job with his blog. Check out the google search results on him; his blog gets the top two spots in Google. My search results are not nearly as good. My blog doesn't turn up in the first ten pages of Google search results. Maybe that is something else I need to get done in 2006!
Scoble's broader point is that you should be able to enter information about yourself (or anything else really) into the search engines. So I am going to follow his lead and publish the things I want people to be able to find about me on the web. I am making the choice to withhold key dates in the hope that I make life at least a little more difficult for the identity thieves.
Jamie McDonald’s email: jamiemc@gmail.com
Jamie McDonald’s mobile phone: 416.825.4819
Jamie McDonald’s mailing address: 2 Bloor Street East, Suite 2100, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 1A8, Canada
Jamie McDonald’s significant other: Pamela Meredith
Jamie McDonald’s kid(s): Thea McDonald
One final note, when Google starts doing this for people, they have a real opportunity to make life miserable for LinkedIn. Can you say disintermediate?
And yes, I have accepted Scott McNealy's credo that there is no privacy in the internet world.
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