Filled with the civic spirit and excitement of the Obama campaign? Want to serve your country? Yeah, yeah. There’s a 7 page questionnaire with 63 topics that you need to fill out. I skimmed through it and paused in the publications, writing and speeches section. OMG. I probably shouldn’t bank on a career in government if this is the sort of stuff I’ll be expected to dig up.

I’ve evolved and changed during my 20+ years of online life. The emails I wrote during college and sent through an IBM mainframe I guarantee are very different than anything I’ve sent in my professional life. Not that I have copies of emails from that era. And online content? Well, the first domain I contributed to was snottybitch.com. Why? Why not. There was nothing untoward on that site. The name just cracked up me and my friends.

Anyway, I actually tried to answer topic #10 of this questionnaire. Not only do I no longer have copies of all the content I’ve ever created, but I don’t necessarily have the software to read some of the content — I’m thinking of AOL email/chat archives from the 1990′s. If anyone can reconstitute that content for the purposes of embarrassing me, well, more power to them.

I had to stop after a while because I’m not sure how to list the entirety of content under my authorship. Do I need to be concerned about content that was marked as private? Do I need to be concerned about content that was disposable? Is my Master’s Thesis fair game? What about digital copies of class assignments? There’s some things I simply haven’t kept. Anyway, here’s my attempt at a comprehensive answer to #10:

(10) Writings: Please list and, if readily available, provide a copy of each book, article, column or publication (including but not limited to any posts or comments on blogs or other websites) you have authored, individually or with others. Please list all aliases or “handles” you have used to communicate on the Internet.

Please visit the wayback machine for copies of old web sites I’ve owned and/or been a prime contributor of. I haven’t kept back-ups of everything, so I have to rely on this archive:

Snottybitch.com (June 2000 – December 2003)
Doesthislookinfected.com (March 2002 – September 2005)
AggregatedLife.com (February 2006 – December 2007)

Current sites:
ChicagoBites.com (February 2006 – present)
TammyGreen.com (December 2007 – present)

Note: Original web sites were created and hosted through the University of Missouri while I was employed as a computer technician between 1997-1999. However, I no longer have copies of those sites. I also ran AggregatedLife as a blogspot site, but converted all content over to the domain after it was purchased. If there are discrepancies between the sites, I have no way of reconciling them.

All content has been authored under the following names:
Zesmerelda
Tammy Green
Tam I Am
T Green

It’s possible that I’ve used other aliases, but I don’t remember them. I don’t have records of every comment I’ve ever made on a blog not owned by me, but a name search should surface most of my online activity. I recommend doing dedicated searches on “Zesmerelda” and “Tammy Green” + Chicago. A general search of Tammy Green will surface content that may or may not have been authored by me. I’m willing to discuss any ambiguous results.

Also, though you did ask for it, I have authored content on Twitter as @zesmerelda and as @chicagobites. The Chicago Bites Twitter account is a shared account, so again, I’m willing to discuss any particular entry.

Finally, I have almost 10,000 photos posted on Flickr. The majority of these photos are listed under Creative Commons & may have been used on web sites in support of content that I did not approve. I receive credit for my photography, but that doesn’t imply editorial control.