I got bored and started playing around with this today.
http://personas.media.mit.edu/

Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.

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.

In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer's uncanny insights and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name. It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world, where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant.





This is what my screenshot looked like.
It was intresting.
Has anyone else done this?

Just did it. It said something about me bieng pronounced dead at North Adams Regional Hospital. Nice to know. (woot! I'm the living dead!)

Dunno how you got it on there, but Mine was just five things: Managment, Commitiees, Domestic, Illigal and Music.

Here are the characteristics I got before closing the window (our online service is spotty tonight)

"Suspenseful page-turner"
Japanese fiction references
[Lots of risque stuff]
A type of fish

totally did it agian with my username on here (first time I used my real name...), and it had alot of the topics that I've posted from on here. RavenGrim and Emmature even popped up on it a couple of times!

and its not copying and pasting for me ravengrim....i'm just dumb when it comes to computer....might also be this stupid vista program,,

Wow! I just did it and at one point it displayed my Amazon.com profile. Kind o embarrassing. LOL

I'm just doing a bunch of diffrent ones, some of the funnier ones are Micky Mouce, Jesus Christ, real name, persona graph and, dead end...