Vanity searches are always amusing...

[jducoeur]

The reason I found the aforementioned pirated book is that I'm currently spending a few minutes Googling for myself. (We've got an interview today, and I was startled to find nothing on the candidate in Google. So out of curiosity, I decided to Google my own mundane name and see what crops up.) Some tidbits:

It appears that ProWiki has gotten at least a little noticed -- I just found a German site, of all things, with a page on it. Now I'm really curious about what it says -- Google completely fails to translate it, oddly.

No surprise, most references to "Mark Waks" are me. But not all -- apparently there's manager of financial systems at BAE with the same name, and maybe one or two others.

It does drive home just how long I've been in the SCA "questions" job. I just came across the introductions issue of Masonry Universal, from 1989, in which I suggest that someone should be doing this job for Masonry, and that I've been doing it for the Rialto "forever". (Which at that point, I believe, was about two years.)

Several versions of The Seven Stages of a Usenet Poster, my one contribution to rec.humor.funny, which seems to have gotten copied around a bit.

Several versions of Learning and Memorizing Ritual, the essay that is my main claim to fame in Masonry. I've never been to a Lodge outside Massachusetts, but my lesson plan seems to be getting used pretty much worldwide.

The event announcement for A Winter's Revel at the Inns of Court, which I autocratted seven years ago. (Proving that nothing ever gets removed from the Web, either.)

Comments

[siriel.livejournal.com]

Neat.. I just did the first search for myself in a while and discovered that my name is in a number of O'Reilly colophons. Other than that, the rest are all SCA. It's nice to know I'm still the only person with my full name in Google.

[tpau]

it seems to mostly say that you wrote it and for more info they shoudlgo and look at your actual site...

[tpau]

babel fish says :


See ProWikiSoftware.

ProWiki calls itself also in the year 2004 WikiEngine of Marks, arisen, Waks. This software is under http://jducoeur.org/wiki.cgi and further information about it is under http://www.flexwiki.com/default.aspx/FlexWiki.ProWiki to be found.

Thanks for the reference. Rather stupidly of Marks of Waks to go in with a new development into a Namenskollission. First, which one makes during a product designation, is nevertheless a search and the view whether the domains are still free. Times sees, what he says. I want to shoot not directly with cannons... -- HelmutLeitner


apparently i guess they make a product with same name or something?

[jducoeur]

I guess so. They apparently think that it's some kind of professional system, instead of the hack it is...

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Did anyone ever start that function for the Masons?

[jducoeur]

Not that I'm aware of, but I've been out of that loop for a number of years now...

[siderea]

The event announcement for A Winter's Revel at the Inns of Court, which I autocratted seven years ago. (Proving that nothing ever gets removed from the Web, either.)

I beg your pardon: I put that there because I wanted an archived copy, and event announcements were going to the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky. That most definitely was not a "did not get removed"; it was a "preserved from extinction by deliberate act."

[jducoeur]

Fair enough. I certainly don't *mind* it being there (and I quite understand the preservationist motive) -- I was simply surprised to find it...

[siderea]

I'm actually faintly appalled at how much information about the Society disappears because everyone seems to be presuming that "Oh, someone else will be saving it." While I know that industrious historians like your Lady and like alexx_kay have been working with paper, the increasingly important electronic documents are not being preserved, unless archive.org hits them.

Just knowing what we events we've held and what happened at them is increasingly difficult as more and more information shifts to the Internet. Often much richer and more complex information is on websites, simply because the cost of including it in paper newsletters is prohibitive.

[jducoeur]

Yep, that makes sense. Actually, msmemory and I do that for a number of email lists -- we picked up the habit with the Rialto, and still tend to archive any interesting lists unless we know that there's an official archive. (Email lists being even more ephemeral than websites, and sometimes just as interesting in the long run. The IP issues do make publicizing them a lot stickier, though; I have archives that I may simply never be able to publish formally.)

Doing it for websites isn't a habit I've picked up on *much*, but I do understand. I occasionally archive pages that I consider particularly important for one reason or another, knowing just how fluid the Web can be...