Book Review: Me and My Web Shadow

You don’t need to be a tech­nical genius or have to hack into Google’s servers to make sure that your online rep­res­ent­a­tion shows your good side. All you need is to be diligent; create a plan and stick to it.

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Managing Your Online Reputation: Pukka Tips

Techcrunch editor Michael Arrington believes that the era of trying to manage one’s online repu­ta­tion is almost over: Trying to control, or even manage, your online repu­ta­tion is becoming increas­ingly difficult.

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Taming the Spirit of the Times

On most news organ­isa­tions’ websites, you’ll find a widget called ‘most read’, ‘most shared’ or ‘most com­mented’, possibly all three. The Guardian’s Zeitgeist exper­i­ment suggests an inter­esting alternative.

Typically, the content found in the most-​​​​X sections provides a salutary — if depressing — reminder of humanity’s baseness and stupidity.

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RSA Talk — Delete

I men­tioned this a couple of posts back. Delete dis­cusses ‘The Virtues of Forgetting in the Digital Age’. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend but the RSA has — as always — made the audio of the talk avail­able to everyone. See the link below for details.

Google remem­bers everything we’ve searched for and when.

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Googling Me, Googling You. Ah-​​ha

Online privacy and repu­ta­tion is going to be big business over the next few years. The last couple of weeks have seen the beta launch of both London’s Garlik and US-​​​​based Reputation Defender. Both of these sub­scrip­tion services offer to scour the web for you, find every trace of your name and optionally

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