This is 100% the case. I wouldn't be surprised if universities actually have a policy against not customizing profile pages. Otherwise you're opening things up to the good old Geocities age.

Sigh... was the personal attack really necessary?

I see these pages, all the time, with tech heavyweights that aren't teachers. I won't bother tracking them down, but I've been seeing them for years.

I don't think it's an ego-trip. These folks really are that busy, and this stuff just isn't important. Some, however, I am sure, have ego trips. I don't really care. I'm not inviting them over for dinner, and they probably wouldn't come, if I did.

The ego trip is more with sites like mine, where I take the time to polish it up. It's more important to me, than it is to them.

Some of them actually have fairly current-looking pages, because they work[ed] for companies (or schools) that have templates[0].

Also, he isn't my "hero." I mean, seriously...

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150312003109/http://research.g...