Posted by: | 13th Oct, 2010

Gold Digger

    Today, everyone has a presence online. Almost everyone has a facebook account, the numbers of Twitter followers are rapidly increasing and Blogs are popping up everywhere it seems. People know their presence is there, but does anyone know what kind of information they are releasing to the world about themselves?

    Every time someone adds to a blog, tweets about their day, or posts something on their facebook wall they are building their online ‘mine’ of information. This mine is then there for anyone who wishes to enter.

    A neat thing to conduct on your own would be to figure out what your ‘mine’ has to say about you.  In Mim’s Bits blog about technology, he blogged about how to conduct your own research on your image. He also provides the tool on how to make a word cloud with the new information you find out.

    Check it out:

    How To Use Twitter For Personal Data Mining

    Here is a quick sample of what you can do with the information you unearth:

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