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Inheritability of blogs: You take Aunt Esther’s silverware, I’ll take her blog…

By Professor NathensonJune 10, 2006Blogging, Data Destruction, Digital Preservation, Internet Archive, Wayback MachineBlawgs, blogging, copyright, Digital Preservation, Information, Intellectual Property, Internet Archive, Privacy, Wayback Machine

Over at the user forums on WordPress.com, there’s an interesting thread on “web logs and wills.” Forum user timethief writes: What happens to . . . web logs if a person dies and their executor notifies [the weblog’s host] of their demise. Can one leave their account, username, password and API key number to another […]

Shakespeare & serendipity

Why use a chunk from Shakespeare’s first sonnet as my first posting? Quick answer #1: Because he wrote so much more beautifully than I ever will. Quick answer #2: Because I wanted a placeholder. Not-so-quick answer #3: When working on the blog’s design, I wanted something — anything — to serve as a placeholder. Shakespeare […]

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Inheritability of blogs: You take Aunt Esther’s silverware, I’ll take her blog…

Shakespeare & serendipity