Comments on: ghosts in the machine

By: Al

Al — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 22:12:55 +0000

A friend of mine on Livejournal died suddenly a year ago last week. His journal is still up and his last entry has hundreds of comments from us from after he died…

Another friend of mine was murdered 1 1/2 years ago and her blog is still up as well.

I don’t think LJ has a policy to remove blogs for dead users.

By: SocialTwister

SocialTwister — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 23:56:12 +0000

The Many Faces of Our Digital Identity

Since the beginning of this blog, I’ve often tackled the issue of Digital Identity. In short, I’ve most often griped about the methods in which various systems and services have not only requested it, but also what they ask for….

By: SocialTwister

SocialTwister — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 23:55:07 +0000

The Many Faces of Digital Our Identity

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 04:08:02 +0000

I understand the feelings-my dad is fighting cancer and it’s normal to want to hold on to their memories. It’s a damning existence of being human-to want to be eternally-remembered. To be forgotten is to be lost. I guess it’s why we have tombstones,a last marker.

By: DavidM

DavidM — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:21:05 +0000

A friend of mine died recently (and suddenly). This person’s Friendster and Orkut profiles are still there; I haven’t had the presence of mind or the heart to report them.