Managing Your Online Identity

I remember reading Anil Dash’s article, Anil Dash: privacy through identity control many years ago. As a result, I purchased the JasonWall.net, JasonWall.org, and the .net and .org versions of walljm.com. Though I had other reasons, that article was influential in motivating me. In keeping with the idea that if you are going to have an online identity, I regularly register the walljm name on all the new services and major blog engines to prevent other people from preempting the name. If you search for Jason Wall on Google, the first site you’ll get is this one. The same goes for walljm, the other monikor I use often on the web. In addition, I have Blogger, LiveJournal, Xanga, MySpace, and WordPress blogs registered to the walljm identity that I use for both commenting (a lot of these sites won’t let you comment without a login) and reserving the walljm identity.

Incidently, if the guy out there who has registered the walljm blogger identity wants to give it up, I’d be grateful, and um, willing to pay a small fee. ;) As it turns out, after wishing I had the blogger identity for years, I apparently signed up a really long time ago and forgot about it. I hadn’t posted anything so the blogspot address was vacant. *doh* I tried logging in on a whim this afternoon and it let me with one of my old passwords. *sheesh* So there you go, all the major sites point here. Maybe someday I’ll use these blogs for something else besides pointers.