Being CS

Where is the About Page?

Earlier somebody asked the second panel, why there is no standardized location for About Me pages yet. I disagree with the panelists, who believe that it is mostly due to people's desire for privacy. While there are some Blogger's that use synonyms and/or want to remain anonymous, the majority of bloggers would probably not mind publishing a short description of themselves.
The person asking the question mentioned that there are standard for how to provide RSS feeds, blog rolls, etc. which all have something in common in my opinion. Unlike descriptions of people, which tend to be very personal and varied, RSS feeds, blogrolls, post listings are all highly structured, so we have found standardized ways to format this information. FOAF is very much related to About pages, but your list of friends is more structured, than your description, so it is simpler to formalize. "Self definition" is hard to achieve, and standardizing it is even harder.