Realistic Characters – REALLY Realistic
Posted By rlc on October 26, 2008
Every day something new comes at me from the websphere that I hadn’t thought of (and me a strategic kind of guy). Today is certainly no exception.
I write a lot of stuff that has corporate executives at the core of the story. OK, not too uncommon in these times. The place it gets interesting is that a number of my “executives” and even their companies are starting to show up in on-line business directories. Damien Grade, Chairman of Damien Holdings; Geoffrey Fynch, CEO of BeriCraft Aviation and Hugo Spengler, CEO and Head of Security for Acolytica all showed up this morning while I was doing an unrelated Google search. Can Patrick Donleavy, Vice President of Davis/Utley be next? (Stage aside: all of the “Spenglers” from Ghostbusters Inc also showed up in the same business directory with Hugo.)
Every one of my pages contains a “fiction” disclaimer. Apparently these directory scraper programs haven’t been trained to read disclaimers. Who knows, after my organizations and executives show up in enough directories I can set up some IPOs. 
Ron
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