We had an interesting assignment this week in my Thinking, Learning, and Computers class: Among other tools, use the Personas website, created by Aaron Zimmerman (a PhD candidate at MIT) to discover what information is available about you on the Internet. I thought I’d post it here for your amusement — and possible food for thought.

Just search for your name using Personas and it returns a graph of “how the Internet sees you”, based on predetermined categories:

Here's mine... click for a full view.

Obviously this is going to be more accurate if you have a fairly unusual name (like mine), but the creators of the project are well aware of this. Get a more complete explanation of the project’s aims and how to interpret your graph by going to Personas and clicking Read More.