Emu POTW: MIT’s Internet Persona Calculator
One of my new favorite toys is this online tool that allows you to indulge your wildest internet egocentricities. The tool seeks out your each and every Google-worthy act and unceremoniously dumps it into one of many pre-determined category bins, forever branding the nature of your service to the human race.
It’s so uncompromising and final… This pleases me.
And now, the Personas breakdown of the entire Mep staff. Apologies to Greg, who has a somewhat more common name than the rest of us (hence the prominent “illegal” heading in his breakdown).
Absolutely love this – the time-wasting possibilities are limitless.
However, the accuracy seems to leave something to be desired. How is Russ the only one without an online presence? How does Clea top out on the aggression scale? Why is Russ all about, of all things, management and the family?! And how in God’s name did I get associated with anything related to fashion?
I demand a recount.
In fairness, when you type in my full name–Gregory A. Wilson–you get something much more accurate, dominated by books, education, sports, politics and fame. That helps cut down on the “my name is too common” problem, though there’s still too much illegal there (when it should be at zero 😉 ) and not enough music. If you typed in Greg Wilson and could somehow add the term “The Road” to lock the name in more exactly, that would get you the music side but not as much of the other side.
Either way, though, yeah, this is pretty cool.