The Business Blog at Intuitive.com

Dave Taylor has been involved with the online world since 1980 and is recognized globally as an expert on both technical and business issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed. He's a columnist for the Boulder Daily Camera and Linux Journal and frequently appears in other publications both online and in print. Additionally, Dave maintains four weblogs: The Business Blog at Intuitive.com, Ask Dave Taylor, Dave On Film, and GoFahterhood. Based in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and frequent guest on radio and podcast programs, as well as active member of his community and busy single father to three children.

How do you categorize yourself?

I'm signing up for Orkut, a "friendster"/"Ryze"-like networking service that's gotten some publicity because its creator is a member of the Google team and I'm finding that the Personal profiling section is amusing. Questions on the survey include...

Body Art?: strategically placed tattoo, visible tattoo, pierced ears, pierced tongue, other piercing, and navel ring
Looks?: beauty contest winner, very attractive, attractive, average, mirror-cracking material
Best Feature?: eyes, hair, lips, neck, arms, hands, chest, belly button, butt, legs, calves, feet, and not on the list

There are more questions, but I am just really interested in this sort of survey because I can really imagine people having a very skewed perception of themselves, either considering themselves "mirror-cracking material" when they're actually quite attractive, or considering themselves "beauty contest winner" when in fact they'd only win the contest if there weren't any other entries!

Be that as it may, Orkut looks pretty interesting, though it's an invitation only network: if you want to check it out, email me and if I know you, I'll invite you! :-)

Posted by Dave Taylor at January 28, 2004 11:24 PM

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