Michael Essany takes a stab at it Options

[thekohser]

Michael Essany wrote an Intuit blog piece a while back. While he spent a paragraph talking about me, he never bothered to interview me or to let me know when he published the story.

If you'd like a little chuckle, read his story, then read this (note the author?), check this out, and see this and this.

Hmm...

[EricBarbour]

Of course, there is also the possibility that someone else will write about you. Antero Alli, founder of the Berkeley, Calif.-based publishing and production company ParaTheatrical Research, was pleasantly surprised to find himself as the subject of a Wikipedia article – although he takes it with the proverbial grain of salt.

“My Wikipedia page has served as a kind of generic bio that has been useful on occasions when I want to impress someone with the broader range of what I do and have done,” he says. “But it’s still odd. When I look at it and read it, it’s as if I’m reading the story of someone who has already died. I mean, don’t you have to die first before getting listed in an encyclopedia?”

Not if it's an "encyclopedia". Then you can use it to defame live people.

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[Milton Roe]

Of course, there is also the possibility that someone else will write about you. Antero Alli, founder of the Berkeley, Calif.-based publishing and production company ParaTheatrical Research, was pleasantly surprised to find himself as the subject of a Wikipedia article – although he takes it with the proverbial grain of salt.

“My Wikipedia page has served as a kind of generic bio that has been useful on occasions when I want to impress someone with the broader range of what I do and have done,” he says. “But it’s still odd. When I look at it and read it, it’s as if I’m reading the story of someone who has already died. I mean, don’t you have to die first before getting listed in an encyclopedia?”

(IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/pinch.gif) Clueless. Even the Britannica has had BLPs since the 1911 edition. The key is that you had to be a lot more famous and public than Antero Alli.

<sigh> I'm afraid the public is going to need a fair amount of Special Ed before they can even begin to participate in this debate. Right now it's sort of like asking Joe Q. Innumerate if biodiesel and ethanol are going to solve global warming.