I thought about this concept of personomies for a long time, only to discover recently that someone had too. Good to know that several people had the same idea, though i dont see personomies as a term for librarian but more a term to describe my "personal information environment". My personomy is the information environment i have built over time, independently of any platform or system. Personomies include contacts, purchases, health records, search history, emails, rss feeds, IMs, voip calls, comments on blogs...etc...any tiny bit of data that is logged and can be tracked back to me belong in my personomy. Personomies are any digital manifestations of me.Is this a big deal? Yes. Because personomies = data and data = gold. Because the more someone can understand, model, predict, help me develop my personomy, the better they will know me. And the better they know me, the better they can target me and build a long lasting relationship with me....and we all know that that's where the money is. That's pretty much what personomies mean to me. As this blog grows, I know my definition and understanding of the concept will evolve, hopefully with your input.
personomies, information environment