I just started to create a claimID profile. So now you can check out my claimID.

I'm still debating the usefulness of this over the simple concept of just having a home page (like this one) that's properly laid out. However, data duplication issues aside, it is a well done site, simple to use and has a well-focused attention.

Why it's useful:

It's fully controlled by me so I can show off the person I think I am to the world. I determine the importance of the links, who I choose to link to and who I don't. It can be the things I write, participate in, have done, or have said about me. I could even throw my own crediblity out the window by claiming I wrote all of Slashdot.

It's also current; it properly uses MicroID to validate the sites I actually own. It creates a proper HCard page I could use for integration with and to other identity sources.

Why it's not:

It's not yet visible enough. If people don't know about the page, they won't be able to see what I want them to, they'll be back at the position of just googling Ryan Bianchi and coming up with data that I might have been a fullback for California State Polytechnic University (which I wasn't). But even that is always changing.

So I think it can be a useful "personal resume", a kind of addendum to the more formal resume. I think of it kind of like a resume for someone who just met me. An interested new co-worker or something like that.