I was thinking about that; what making running for office so special is not that the that the information becomes more sensitive, but that someone is guaranteed to look for (and most probably find) it.

One of my very first posts on this blog was about a prostitute who serviced the governor of New York.

http://thehappymoron.com/blog/2008/03/19/dont-become-accidentally-famous/

You remember the name Eliot Spitzer? When the scandal blew, all of her web presence (open for the most part) was gobbled up by the press and by the tabloids. It probably didn’t help that she was ridiculously pretty.

And it wasn’t even her scandal…
The entire security model of most of the web is: “people don’t care about me.”
Not, “People can’t find stuff about me.” or “The stuff about me is benign” but straight up, “People don’t care about me.”

And that can change in a flash.

But I’ll say this – the opinions and poorly filtered opinion rants I post on this blog will probably indict me long before my schedule will.

Am I saying that your daily schedule would be lost in the midst of the trivia that makes up so much of the ethereal world? Maybe, mhm??

I only have one colleague as a facebook friend, but that one colleague is a link. If my boss ever befriended me I’d probably accept (things being as they are) and that would be the goodbye to my anonymity.

Another of my colleagues read this blog once. I don’t know if she follows it any more.

One day I could accidentally forward my boss a link to a document hosted on my site. The name of the site piques his interest and, whoops…

It’s not unthinkable.

Of course, what does this schedule say about me? Does it say bad things? Does it say good things?

All measurements are relative, and I don’t think that what is evidenced here (work habits, etc) is particularly terrible.

On the other hand, the schedule demonstrates a commitment to personal process and continuous improvement.

In a large part, an employer’s impression will largely depend on how I present it… and on their own personal neuroses, which I can’t control.

What is far riskier, in my mind, is how this schedule will combine with a hundred other little snippets of information posted – all benign and innocent on their own – to produce an exploitable or incriminating story that was built slowly and imperceptibly over time.

It’s impossible to predict what the potentials for exploitation could be for an accumulated database of tiny, innocent facts. The point is, once that database is built, it’s too late.

The rule of the internet future is, perhaps,

“Make it ridiculously easy for people to find good stuff about you.”