I was at some Macalester something, and folks were talking about how Facebook killed the Spotlight. I also did some Googling of myself during this recent job search to try and find out what I could find about myself. I’m sure that folks are continuously talking about the breaking down of boundaries between public/private, and I don’t think I’m another alarmist (or even all that concerned, apparently, after seeing all the public profiles of myself I could find with a google search). Anyhow, the Personas Project from MIT is pretty cool, and pretty pretty.
From the description:
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.
