Ego Search
For some reason, I got it into my head this morning to run an ego search, i.e., search for your name on Google (or, in the past, Altavista, say). My own web site doesn’t pop up until the second or third page of hits, and it’s usually four-year-old movie reviews and some technical postings for the rest (the tape backup software and CIPE have the web-ified mailing list archives).
Anyway, I found that an old movie review of mine has popped up in some UNC Charlotte Film Studies class this past spring:
http://www.uncc.edu/rcreimer/class minutes Jan 30-02.htm
It’s the last review on the page.
I’m slightly weirded by the hyperlink on my name, since it points to a local drive on the instructor’s machine.
The page leading to this seems to an archives of class minutes:
http://www.uncc.edu/rcreimer/class_minutes_for_forl_3160_spri.htm
January 30 is the page the review appears on, and February 4 is when they discussed Life is Beautiful.
Glancing through some of the other links, I see that this whole Internet thing has some part in modern pedagogy, since the professor seems to be drawing on Usenet reviews (where I posted), as well as Ebert archives, the IMDB (of course (actually, the Usenet review part might have come from IMDB, since they maintain an archive of postings to the relevant groups) and that semi-crappy Epinions site. This makes me feel a little old, actually. I remember having a typewriter freshman year, and typing out in the hallway so as not to wake my roommate up with the clickety-clack of the thing. I didn’t get a computer of my own until senior year, and it didn’t have a network connection or modem. Ah, well.