Some social sites, such as Facebook, don't give you any inkling of when your profile page, or any materials you post, have been viewed.  Some dating sites let you know how often your profile has been viewed, although one can never be sure whether this is an accurate figure or an attempt to get people to upgrade their accounts. Academia.edu lets you know when someone visits your profile there from a search and the keywords they used to find you.

An initial view (mindmap, adulterated) of how model of mind fits with identity formation and perception.

This is also an experiment with XMind and in massaging the output to work in my blog here on Drupal.

I was asked to give my thoughts on Digital Identity and Identity - how they interact and relate to one another. I haven't got round to writing what I really wanted to, so this is just a quick brain dump of some of the issues.

Several people in the CCK08 massively online course on Connectivism and Connected knowledge have been discussing online identity, self and reputation. One of the interesting points is about how engaged you can feel when dealing with an avatar (graphical or textual) which has obviously been designed as an ephemeral presence purely for a particular purpose. If there is no back history available, can you feel a sense of trust?

First, my model of mind and (therefore) of learning - we are pattern matching creatures by dint of the way out brains work, and look for the similarities and differences between things. We also create models in our minds of what we perceive, which are, by definition, abstractions and simplifications of the 'objective reality'. Our perceptions are, I believe, affected by the internal models.

I have just blogged over at RedGloo about identity, trust and reputation and how they affect connectivism (to some extent). I want to explore that some more in a series of posts, but for various reasons, I don't want to post too much on RedGloo.