John suggests that “Former sourcing luminaries will be familiarizing themselves with the alarm on the French fry machine and the relative difference between Rare, Medium and Well done.”

Oh, dear.

I imagine in years to come when the names of those “sourcing luminaries” have been long forgotten there will still be those recruiters who would like to know how to find leads and resumes online. Poor souls, who will teach them?

It pains me to think of the years of hard graft that these forgotten fry cooks have put into researching search syntax and Boolean strings to advance the profession, all for naught. So sad that they are gone now, forgotten.

In the hours of my darkest depression, lamenting the impending death of so many beautiful minds, my own demise too perhaps, I decided I would erect a monument to the “Unkown Cybersleuth.”

In so doing I hope that for generations to come, recruiters every would add job titles like “Accountant” or skill sets like “Java” to the etched names memorialized there and click “Keywords” to miraculously find code left by the masters to cut and paste directly into their browsers.

Long after punditry has gone the way of sourcing, I imagine recruiters everywhere thumbing their noses at Mr. Sumser saying:

Sourcing is Dead! Long Live Google!

More than that, I want the aggregated results to be served in context, arranged in folders by media and domain, sorted by date and relevancy, cross referenced to each other, color coded and appropriately tagged. Peer reviews would be nice.

If anyone I know — or you know for that matter — who has every referenced the subject in a conversation, or a posted a link, or bookmarked the page, or shared a comment, I want to know that too. If there is a relationship between any of those people I want to be able to see how and where they are connected and if we share any interests other than the subject in question.

It probably makes sense to see what their other interests are including their marital status, sexual orientation, previous employment and Amazon wish lists. Throw in email addresses, telephone numbers and user names — you know, just in case.

I want to be able to visualize the data, reorder the data, post it with a tiny URL and have it delivered to my mobile device. I want to create a feed for my reader and one for my blog. Oh, and I must have all this data in some personalized archive where I can conduct “proprietary” searches on my desktop.

Why would I want all this? Because I need it!

Oh, the Sirens, the Sirens — make them stop!