What Is Your Web Persona?

Ever wonder how the Internet sees you?  What information would an Internet crawl bot would catalog about you?  Now you can find out!

The project is called Persona’s, and it’s  from MIT’s Media Lab.

Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person – to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.

The Persona’s project will crawl the Internet for articles and content that includes your name.  If you have a very common name, your results may be skewed for obvious reasons.  The project is far from perfect but it’s a neat little tool.  Watching the bot crawl content may be more fun than the results itself.  Give it a try!