There's only one thing worse than being talked about...

By pure chance, yesterday I discovered that Googling the name of one of my colleagues at work brings up a Yorkshire Post news story about something they were involved with 3 years ago. The story isn't earth shattering, it's one of those "they did something maybe a bit naughty and a lot of people got very cross, but it all worked out okay in the end" type stories which are full of heat without major substance. I wonder if they are aware, and whether it's a cross they've just decided to bear.

It brought to mind a time that a new employee was appointed to a senior position more recently and, for want of any information about him, we googled them. Google had absolutely nothing to say, nor Yahoo, nor Bing. If you knew where to look, his credentials could be confirmed; but not a single triumph or disaster, nor a single merit or flaw were recorded in the Great Library of the Internet.

To me there's one thing worse being talked about on the Internet, and that's never having done a thing worthy of being said.