My Organic Competitor is Paul Michael Glaser

I believe we’ve reached a point of Internet Osmosis.

My website, www.jainlemos.com appears on SpyFu. Their motto is “Spy on Your Online Competitors.” An alert this morning led me there for the first time.

This is the link to my site’s listing on SpyFu. Notice the webpage’s tab header is my URL. Towards the bottom of the page, there are two boxes with information. One is for Organic Keywords, obviously gleaned from my posts. The other box provides a list of Top Organic Competitors. A bar next to each of my competitors measures the overlap. Today, my highest competitor site is the Official Website of Paul Michael Glaser. No surprise that David Soul would be second.

In 1987, I worked on the feature film, The Running Man as an assistant to actor Yaphet Kotto. Paul was the film’s director (he was called in to take over the project as director a few weeks into production). I remember the moment he arrived on location. We were at California Steel Industries in Fontana, Calif. on a hot and dusty day. More chaos than usual. The movie is set in the year 2019, only 10 years from now.

So anyway, that is a coincidence. But why else would my site overlap so high with Paul’s? The movie is based on the Stephen King novel (written under his pseudonym Richard Bachman).

In 1997, I worked for Headland Digital Media, a division of Penguin Putnam (Pearson, PLC) in Novato, Calif. Our project team created online communities surrounding major book launches, including Tom Clancy’s Politika and… Stephen King’s Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass. Here is a press release announcing the site we built.

In 2007, I updated my LinkedIn profile. I know this because of a recommendation date. This is one of the few (I think) places where I list my full resume details. It reads:

Content Strategist Consultant, Headland Digital Media, Pearson PLC: Developed and launched effective and innovative online marketing Web sites to rollout and promote new books by authors Tom Clancy and Stephen King, increasing site stickiness with the Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass trivia game, exclusive screensaver, and sweepstakes, and the Politika exclusive online game that allowed readers to enter Clancy’s world and encouraged repeat site visits with online prizes.

In 2017, I will check back with SpyFu.

Meanwhile, I will watch the 1977, Season 2, Episode 13 of “Starsky and Hutch” for some clues.