Way back at the end of August — it seems like a life­time ago now, doesn’t it? — the awe­some Lisa Her­rod posted a photo of her­self on Flickr tagged “I work on the web”, with a bit of an expla­na­tion of who she is, what she does, how she came to do it and why she loves it. Lisa encour­aged some oth­ers to do the same and before long, there were a whole stack of web work­ers from around the globe who had posted their own I work on the web pro­files. Lach­lan Hardy and Tool­man Tim Lucas made a clever web site to cap­ture sub­mis­sions that were machine tagged. At the time of writ­ing, there are 70 pro­files on the site, and it makes for fas­ci­nat­ing reading.

So, I think it’s too good a meme to let lan­guish, and I know there are many, many, many more peo­ple who work on the web who haven’t been reached — like most of you who are read­ing this from MXNA or Ful­lasa­goog! So while we’re all recov­er­ing from hol­i­day over-indulgence, why not con­tribute? Snap a photo, write some words about your­self and how you came to work on the web, post it to Flickr, and tag it with the machine tag “iworkontheweb:name=My Name” (don’t for­get to include the dou­ble quotes). After a few min­utes, through the magic of APIs, your pro­file should appear on the site.

Go on, you know you want to!