personas

Step Outside Yourself: See Yourself as the Internet Does

grrlscientist | August 21, 2009

tags: Personas, Online Personality, Online Information, technology, art GrrlScientist Personas [larger view] Personas is an interesting program that searches for online references to you and uses it to create a piece of art that describes you. To do this, it analyzes these references for repeated words and phrases and builds a graphic (like the one you see above) that "describes" you. It's really interesting because you can watch the process as it builds this picture and gives you some food for thought regarding the sorts of information that is "out there" about you. It's almost as…

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