Re: Anna Genoese (Tor) on DON'T BE STUPID IN PUBLIC.

"Dan Goodman" <dsgood@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Towse wrote:

<http://alg.livejournal.com/78184.html>

"The internet is a public space. Anything you put on it can be
seen.
Hell, Google caches locked livejournal posts! Feedster and LJ Seek
make it easy to scan LJ and blogs for your name. This is not
necessarily done always by egomaniac editors with too much time on
their well-manicured hands -- sometimes it's done by a relative who
has only just discovered that if he types your full name into
Google,
he gets twenty-odd pages of hits! On his granddaughter! How
exciting!

"I am not actually someone who says things like, "Don't put
anything
on the internet that you wouldn't want to see on the six o'clock
news." Frankly, I send snarky emails all the time, and say stuff in
email and locked LJ posts that I wouldn't want to see on the six
o'clock news -- but mostly cause I don't want my parents knowing.
Or
whatever.

[...]

"Here is an example: I have, in the past, been known to Google my
own
name. (My grandpa and mother both do it too. It's kind of neat.) I
found a blog written by a woman who had submitted work to me, and
been rejected. In one entry, she compared her book to other books I
had chosen for publication, pointing out why her book was better
than
all of those books.

"Then she submitted work to me again.

"This is another entry about common sense and politeness, I think.
Use your freaking brain. If it's on the internet, anyone can find
it."

[...]

Addendum: Go to http://images.google.com. Go to advanced search,
and
search on your own name.

I knew there were pictures of me on the Web. I didn't realize how
many
there were.


--
Dan Goodman

Two hits on my name, one of which actually was a picture of me (and
other people).

Neat. But a tad surprising, as when I googled my name in google.com I
found there is an actress by the same name, so thought there would be
pictures of her with the image search; but there was nary a one.

--
Beth

"Only Irish Coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food
groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, fat." Alex Levine


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