Angie McKaig - E-Business Consultant and Entrepreneur

top Angies and digital spelunking2004.04.08

Fame, in the information age, can apparently be given by Google.

A friend of mine pointed out to me yesterday that while I show up (as you might expect, given that McKaig isn't a common name) 1st in the results for Angie McKaig, I also show up 8th of all the Angies in the world. Aww. Shucks.

Amusingly, the Google search for my entire name also brings up an odd hodgepodge of a decade spent online, including:

lots of links to completely ripped off versions of articles I wrote for the site I sold back in 2000 (now defunct, and don't get me started on that travesty)
my favourite fonts folder at MyFonts
an old interview with me at Cinescape
the time I tried a Wiki (before giving up on it for life)
a much younger me asking for advice on contest promotion
a now-defunct reminder that I used to have a fractals site
the remains of the beginning of this blog
puppies are copyrighted to me (that's right; I own them all, bwahahaha)

There are days when Google is just too fun.

3 comments

Cameron Adams said on 2004.04.08

http://weblog.editthispage.com/

"The good folks at lemurzone.com are up in arms over the lack of standards between browsers ...

However, they're going to lose (right along with the entire Web Standards Project), and I'll tell you why:"

Ahhhh ... don't you love hindsight? :o]

Angie said on 2004.04.10

I do indeed! *laughs* It's not the first time, or the last time, that I've been wrong. Comes with being an opinionated little cuss. Sometimes your opinions are just wrong. In this case, happily so. :)

Christopher Jorgensen said on 2004.06.04

I have lived a life online. Sometimes I think it cool, other times sad. I remember a time when many people went by pseudonyms and Usenet was king.

I decided to do a search after a few years internet hiatus (ironically while working for AOL) and see if I couldn't get credit and links updated from my college years to one of my current sites. I found I was quoted a lot more often than I realized, that I'd said a lot of really stupid things (posting drunk and sometimes while sober). I was even quoted in the foreword to J. C. Herz's 1995 book "Surfing on the Internet," but didn't find this out until a year or two ago!

I have a slightly more common last name that yours, but I too take number one spot at google. I'm guessing it irritates the lawyers and architects that land below me (and probably pay a lot more for their net presence).

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