I disagree. It depends on the company and the applicants career maturity though. Someone just coming out of college probably needs a resume to list the basic

I disagree. It depends on the company and the applicants career maturity though. Someone just coming out of college probably needs a resume to list the basic stats, because they're still 1 of 1,000,000 people out there. But once you've been around a bit and have contributed something to the area in which you're looking to be employed, letting "others" speak for you is highly efficient. By "others", I mean blogs, the web, colleagues, professional profiles, etc. You can put almost anything you want on a resume and it's hard to really know how accurate it is. Saying "Google my_name + some_project" is way more "real", as is saying "check out my blog on scaling fortran applications running on TI-83's configured as webservers", or saying "check out my project on _foo.com, which implements a fully-compliant webserver on a PCjr."