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Digital Afterlife: Thoughtful choices for your online legacy | Where archival expertise meets end of life doula compassion—practical guidance on what to preserve, what to remove, and how to choose.
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Time-based media is a tyrant (opens the original)
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We have a rapidly emerging issue of digital loss and decay in our most important archival collections. It’s a seriously under-funded area.1 But that’s not what this post is about, entirely. It’s mostly about human attention, and how valuable it is.You speed it up to watch it. We all do because we are time poor. Our is attention valuable. Valuable to us, our family, our friends and most of all as a consumer, especially a digital one.A lecture at 1.5x, a podcast at 1.75x, a tutorial
A new day for Digital Afterlife (opens the original)
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Digital Afterlife has come out on Tuesdays for a while now. This week it moves to Sundays instead.Two reasons. I like the newsletters that land in my inbox on a Sunday morning. They are there with me at breakfast time for a long, slow read. I give them more attention. I think Digital Afterlife deserves the same attention.The second reason is about me. If my deadline shifts, then I get a full weekend day to decompress without a post hanging over it.Same newsletter in all other ways.Just landing o
The add-ons: the slideshow, the book, the notice, the service sheet (opens the original)
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I attended a funeral recently. This funeral had a celebrant, was held in the funeral home. The procession, the coffin, the flowers. The songs, the eulogy, the celebrant.It also had a photo montage, a printed service sheet and there was a newspaper notice. The slideshow will be turned into a printed memorial book later, to be delivered back to the widow with the urn full of ashes.It got me thinking about all the funeral trappings that we assume we need. But do we?The traditional funeral offeringW
Creation Is the Fun Part. But Who Picks Up the Garbage on Monday Morning? (opens the original)
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You used a piece of software called cURL to open this email. Most have never heard of it.cURL fetches information from one computer and delivers it to another. It was first released in 1996. Its maintainers estimate that one of its components has been installed more than twenty billion times. It is in your phone, your car, your printer, your television. It is the internet’s plumbing.It is also free, and it is maintained by a Swedish developer named Daniel Stenberg, who works on it full time but
Your data lives somewhere. It might be Tasmania. (opens the original)
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For some reason I feel a little nervous when I start a post after a break. The writing knack always feel like it might disappear or fail to load if I don’t exercise it for a bit. So if this post is a bit clunky, I hope you’ll forgive. I thought my first post-holiday post would be about solastalgia, eco-grief, instagram influencers and holiday photography. Why?Because I holidayed in Thailand, where caves and lakes and reefs are being loved to death, as their digital doubles multiply in inverse pr
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