Thursday, November 16, 2006

Egosurfing

A new buzz word has hit the World Wide Web recently and it is all about you! Egosurfing is the new term used to describe people that put their name into a search engine to see what the internet has to say about them. Sound familiar? Well I suspect it does with over 101 million websites offically on the web these days it is hard not to be tempted by the allure of searching for juicy gossip about oneself. "Egosurfing has only been possible since the advent of internet search engines, but it has much older roots. Scientists have long measured the impact of their work by citations - the number of times people reference their papers. The web was invented as a way to publish scientific papers, so it's not surprising that it has spawned a personal equivalent of the citation count." New Scientist- Issue 2577 Luckily (or unluckily) for me there is a real law that has my name on it. On August 6, 1998, Governor George E. Pataki signed "Jenna's Law" which represented the second phase of his initiative to introduce truth-in-sentencing principles into New York State?s sentencing structure for all violent felony offenders. Try your name today and see what you can find...

posted by Jenna at 9:29 AM