Sometimes amidst the traffic on the Information Superhighway, some things do stand still, even once we've gone....
I was reminded this morning with a thud about our own mortality and the power of words we share with people within a blog/tweet/facebook moment through a reminder of someone's funeral.
Mahanada (Andrew Serafinski) passed away suddenly on April 2nd having taken a lot of friends (real and virtual) on many of his travels and adventures around the world (and his mind).
This got me thinking about lots of things associated with the daily routine of orating our mental ramblings. For example:
- Who tends to our space?
- Does it disappear if not logged-into for a certain period of time or does it exist for time in memorium? What do people conclude about the last thing we wrote?
- Without friends posting polite "he's died" notices, do people think we just got bored with talking?!
As I read throuhg Mahanada's last entry, I smiled with the words he'd written then, clearly not realising these to be his last...
Humidity was a drenching 30%.
How I long for snow tomorrow!.....
....I hope to write more when I'm back at home, where I'll start on a long-overdue journey inwards.
What form despatches will take I do not know."
I hope his blog remains there for a good while yet. Although he's no longer with us, the journeys he took people on are still relevant, even to those who didn't even know him!
Amen
Long Now blogged about an interesting service called LegacyLocker where you can pass on all your online accounts to a loved one. More info here: http://blog.longnow.org/2009/04/14/legacy-locker/
Posted by: John Dalziel | April 27, 2009 at 05:59 PM