The Google Twin article has done its thing in print nationally (meaning all-but-Toronto), online (meaning, you know, here), and will be put into ink for Toronto next Saturday.
And that means things are afoot!
As I had anticipated, there is fresh controversy over the validity of my Wikipedia listing. As I am now learning for another article on what makes a person wiki-worthy, there are certain guidelines of "notability" that a person has to have if their Wikipedia entry is to stay up.
I knew I would probably fly under the radar until the article went to print, and, as I suspected, I was sitting pretty until it went online/in the paper on Saturday. Now it has been flagged as not having enough documentation to prove my already questionable notability, but the kind and helpful Alan K'necht is helping to sort that out (without my even asking! He is a wonderful soul!), as am I. He was also kind enough to mention the whole ordeal (and thus, continue to pump up this BG!) on his blog.
I won't be heartbroken if my Wikipedia entry falls away. It was an interesting experiment while it lasted. But, as my colleague Jenny Wagler says, Wiki will be sorry when I do become (significantly) more notable one day and they have to start from scratch.
Interestingly, even as they say in one breath that I'm questionably notable, they quote me in another. My Google Twin article is actually referenced in the Wikipedia Signpost newsroom.
Also, shout out to Donna B. from Ottawa who sent me props on the article via Facebook! It's always nice (and certainly not the norm) to get positive feedback about things we write, and it seems she has a similar Googleganger predicament.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Countown, truly now
I hear through the grapevine of copy editors that this Google epic is finally going to print this weekend, thus hopefully pumping my online existence through the roof with all the curiosity it might pique from readers. Who are, at the very least, my mother. Perhaps my dad, if he can tear himself away from the Toronto Star.
My poor briannagoldberg.com has slipped into obscurity in Google rankings, but I'm pretty sure that's because I redirected it from the .com to my wordpress blog. I feel like Google wouldn't want to rate things that are just redirections.
I know there's some way to actually run a wordpress blog out of the .com, but it was taking me forever to figure out how and really, it's important the keep asking myself, "Do I REALLY need to do this?" as I spend hours tinkering away at my online self that, if the internet ever blooped down, would no longer exist.
I think it's probably worth an hour or two more, to get myself together since people that read the article might potentially (hopefully) visit it and offer me book deals and television series and whatnot. I mean, recognize my fantastic journalism. Because that's a reward in itself.
So off I go to reinvent briannagoldberg.com and muse on what I'd do with my own television series. I'm pretty sure it would involve me playing banjo.
My poor briannagoldberg.com has slipped into obscurity in Google rankings, but I'm pretty sure that's because I redirected it from the .com to my wordpress blog. I feel like Google wouldn't want to rate things that are just redirections.
I know there's some way to actually run a wordpress blog out of the .com, but it was taking me forever to figure out how and really, it's important the keep asking myself, "Do I REALLY need to do this?" as I spend hours tinkering away at my online self that, if the internet ever blooped down, would no longer exist.
I think it's probably worth an hour or two more, to get myself together since people that read the article might potentially (hopefully) visit it and offer me book deals and television series and whatnot. I mean, recognize my fantastic journalism. Because that's a reward in itself.
So off I go to reinvent briannagoldberg.com and muse on what I'd do with my own television series. I'm pretty sure it would involve me playing banjo.
Monday, August 11, 2008
The disappearing briannagoldberg.com
And then it was gone again.
How is it that Google can index my poor little occasionally invisible briannagoldberg.com, and then sometimes not show it? It gets lonely out there in the webisphere when it's not acknowledged... especially since I'm paying for it.
The good news is that all my little social networking attempts are really truly starting to fall into place (before I was just trying to make myself feel better about it, but now it is a fact), and thus I'm now fairly consistently the hits on pages one through three (yeah!).
My Linked In remains elusive, and my Wikipedia entry is still number two. But it's nice to know that all those hours making user names and passwords I have already forgotten for my multiple socially networked selves is somehow paying off.
Today will be spent working on a multimedia project based on my interview with Jim Killeen, the producer that made the doc Google Me, where he met with several of his other selves. I like listening to that interview over and over as I work on it because he is such a positive fellow. He seems quite glad to share his identity. While I am getting there myself, I feel I still have a lot to learn from him.
How is it that Google can index my poor little occasionally invisible briannagoldberg.com, and then sometimes not show it? It gets lonely out there in the webisphere when it's not acknowledged... especially since I'm paying for it.
The good news is that all my little social networking attempts are really truly starting to fall into place (before I was just trying to make myself feel better about it, but now it is a fact), and thus I'm now fairly consistently the hits on pages one through three (yeah!).
My Linked In remains elusive, and my Wikipedia entry is still number two. But it's nice to know that all those hours making user names and passwords I have already forgotten for my multiple socially networked selves is somehow paying off.
Today will be spent working on a multimedia project based on my interview with Jim Killeen, the producer that made the doc Google Me, where he met with several of his other selves. I like listening to that interview over and over as I work on it because he is such a positive fellow. He seems quite glad to share his identity. While I am getting there myself, I feel I still have a lot to learn from him.
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Dr. Katie says
I was telling my friend in medical school about this whole experiment yesterday.
The story gets shorter and shorter every time I mention it to people, but I did leave in the detail that The Other Brianna Goldberg posted on her Wikipedia user page (the one that remains above my own WikiEntry) that she suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder.
"That's so borderline," she said.
My friend the soon-to-be-doctor explained that those who are Borderline tend to crave attention, and that might explain why there is just so much autobiographical material from The Other Brianna Goldberg on the internet... why there's so many of her Google Rankings that I'm fighting to win over.
Because, while I do have the top spot, I am still only eight out of ten.
The experiment continues.
The story gets shorter and shorter every time I mention it to people, but I did leave in the detail that The Other Brianna Goldberg posted on her Wikipedia user page (the one that remains above my own WikiEntry) that she suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder.
"That's so borderline," she said.
My friend the soon-to-be-doctor explained that those who are Borderline tend to crave attention, and that might explain why there is just so much autobiographical material from The Other Brianna Goldberg on the internet... why there's so many of her Google Rankings that I'm fighting to win over.
Because, while I do have the top spot, I am still only eight out of ten.
The experiment continues.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Delayed, hooray'd
Number one! Number one!
It was a sweet, sweet moment when I Googled myself this afternoon and found that the fledgling briannagoldberg.com had finally been indexed. Thus, something uniquely mine will remain the top hit for as long as I control the domain.
Weeyoo! Number one!
Now I have to actually make it more than an online business card. All I wanted to do was get the domain, but now that I have it, I feel I should make it more... top-spot-worthy.
This project has been so odd because everything I do to try and fulfill my assignment has much bigger real-world implications for my reputation. Ie; I just found that only one entry from this blog has been indexed... and it's the one where I accidentally invited everyone I had ever sent an email to into Linked In.
The article, for various reasons, has been postponed for a week or two, since it's going in a weekly section that filled up quickly this week with timely things and that's themed next week.
It's only a letdown because I was working so hard at it and it would be nice to have it done with. But by putting it on pause it allows the fruit of my internet labours to become nice and ripe, and for my many online selves to populate the Google search.
Which I now see it's starting to do rather quickly, for better or for worse.
It was a sweet, sweet moment when I Googled myself this afternoon and found that the fledgling briannagoldberg.com had finally been indexed. Thus, something uniquely mine will remain the top hit for as long as I control the domain.
Weeyoo! Number one!
Now I have to actually make it more than an online business card. All I wanted to do was get the domain, but now that I have it, I feel I should make it more... top-spot-worthy.
This project has been so odd because everything I do to try and fulfill my assignment has much bigger real-world implications for my reputation. Ie; I just found that only one entry from this blog has been indexed... and it's the one where I accidentally invited everyone I had ever sent an email to into Linked In.
The article, for various reasons, has been postponed for a week or two, since it's going in a weekly section that filled up quickly this week with timely things and that's themed next week.
It's only a letdown because I was working so hard at it and it would be nice to have it done with. But by putting it on pause it allows the fruit of my internet labours to become nice and ripe, and for my many online selves to populate the Google search.
Which I now see it's starting to do rather quickly, for better or for worse.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Deadline approaching
My article is due tomorrow, and not much has changed in Brianna Goldberg land.
I am hoping that magically Google will index all my many new online appearances while I sleep. Or that perhaps you will link to this blog, and help pump *clap* me up.
Yes, you. Right now.
I am hoping that magically Google will index all my many new online appearances while I sleep. Or that perhaps you will link to this blog, and help pump *clap* me up.
Yes, you. Right now.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Holding steady; meeting-ready?
My NP articles are holding, as is my WikiPage... though BG The Other still comes in above it. My Digg profile has moved up, my Meetups profile has moved down, and on the second page a whole bunch of direct links to my articles.
I also noticed that anOTHER Brianna Goldberg lives very close to my boyfriend in Boston... next to a street called Peterborough, the name of the town he's from in Ontario.
BG#3 is a year younger than me, a Saggitarius like me, and plays bass like me.
Should I maybe try to meet her the next time I'm there?
My source's comment the other day that seemingly disparate things are actually interconnected becomes more true each day.
I also noticed that anOTHER Brianna Goldberg lives very close to my boyfriend in Boston... next to a street called Peterborough, the name of the town he's from in Ontario.
BG#3 is a year younger than me, a Saggitarius like me, and plays bass like me.
Should I maybe try to meet her the next time I'm there?
My source's comment the other day that seemingly disparate things are actually interconnected becomes more true each day.
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