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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...
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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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QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Tue 14th June 2011, 9:56am) *

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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.

Jimbo himself is of course in Encyclopedia Britannica.
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