Comments on: A Brian By Any Other Name

By: What The Internet Knows About [Brian Herzog] | Get Tech Info

What The Internet Knows About [Brian Herzog] | Get Tech Info — Tue, 10 May 2011 09:30:12 +0000

[...] by personas.media.mit.edu/, this is a visualization of what the internet knows about Brian Herzog. Read more on my website. Related PostsHow many people are going to ask about getting passed internet security and [...]

By: ursula

ursula — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:44:19 +0000

I think you are all wonderful! I really enjoy these blog sites and hope that the discussion of opinions will continue to help improve our world on an international level.

By: Browny

Browny — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:46:04 +0000

Great article! Thanks for the info.

By: Susan K

Susan K — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:40:57 +0000

There are two people with my name in my metro area, and the widgit said I was the only one in the USA with that name. It needs work but it was fun to see the general data on the different parts of the name.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:29:03 +0000

This reminds me of a Kurt Vonnegut book I read about a year ago in which he said that whenever he traveled he would look up Vonnegut in the local phone book, call the person up and make a dinner date, figuring they were probably distantly related. So cool.

Also cool–I am the only me in the US according to the White Pages and How Many of Me.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:56:34 +0000

Only one of me according to that last link. w00t.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:53:00 +0000

In the UK years ago, I saw a book similar to Angela Shelton’s, in which the author met more than a hundred people sharing his name. Unfortunately all I remember is I think his first name started with a J.

There were 3 of me in my high school district (I was once in a large choir with all three of us, plus a college student of the same name), and about 200 total in the state. If I add my middle initial, it drops down to 40; most of them are Sarah Jane.

At work, the default email address is firstname.lastname, with things like middle initials or trailing numbers added as necessary. I get some fascinating misdirected email because of that; today’s was about the transfer of some weapons from one Army unit to another.

And now, according to howmanyofme.com, there are 2,206 of us. I will not be writing a memoir about meeting us all.