When people say nice things about me on the internet

I used to have a crrrrrrrazy self-googling problem. I'd literally google myself six times in an hour. I'm not nearly enough of a personage for that behavior to make sense. I get an interesting mention of myself maayyybe once every other day. The others are just chaff, mostly webpages where I'm mentioned in one of the tags or on the blogroll. I think the…