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Archive | January, 2010

Ignite Raleigh

Ignite Raleigh

Hi Friends.  I’ve submitted an idea to speak at Ignite here at home in Raleigh.  I would appreciate your support by voting for my idea.  Here’s the summary: Last Tweet and testament? Email from the grave? Funerals in World of Warcraft? When you die, your identity will ascend into the cloud—the Internet, that is. But […]

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Making connections

While doing some research recently, I started to think more about the  fields of study that together form a foundation for the digital afterlife.  I have always maintained that this is a multi-faceted topic, but I didn’t realize how true that statement was. Identity – online content is a projection of our identity into the […]

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Digital afterlife in the Washington Post

The Washington Post just published an article about the digital afterlife from Mike Rosenwald.  It’s a great overview of the industry and provides a few personal stories from those affected by death on the Internet. Jeremy Toeman, founder of Legacy Locker, was quoted in the article. “We’re in an era now where people are really […]

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Digital afterlife predictions for 2010

Digital afterlife predictions for 2010

It’s that time of year and there’s one thing that the Internet is not short of–predictions about what will happen in 2010.  And like most others out there, we have an opinion too.  Let’s take a brief look back at 2009. Without doubt, 2009 was the emerging year for the digital afterlife.  Since we started […]

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