Now I stand to administer not only David Weinberger’s immortal bytes, but now also Joi Ito’s. Now, I’m honored and all, and I promise to do my best by both these distinguished citizens of Blogaria and by the interests of posterity.
But just who decided that $30 a year would be the going rate for hosting large, high-volume sites like theirs? Not to mention “pruning the hedges and scrubbing the grafitti off”? Guys, I have to talk with your estates about changing the terms of these arrangements. I mean, I’m busy now; if this idea starts catching on, I won’t have time to do anything but tend memorial websites — which outdoes even theological teaching for low labor-to-remuneration ratios.
Posted by AKMA at September 11, 2003 01:44 PM | TrackBackYou need to outsource to India... ;-)
Posted by: Joi Ito at September 11, 2003 01:54 PMAKMA, siteeternal.com/net/org and eternalsite.net/org are available for registration should you decide to create a business.
Posted by: Andrew at September 11, 2003 02:29 PMWhy hasn't somebody created a place where we can archive our blogs after we die. Provide a service where people (family) could get copies of the blog. Things like that. It would be kind of like freezing your head, only a lot cheaper. A way to keep yourself immortal, that way at least your site would live on.
Posted by: Grant at September 11, 2003 02:51 PMi posted this in a comment to a previous post, but you really need to check out this site: http://afterlife.org/ they (claim to) do the same service for free.
Posted by: scott reynen at September 11, 2003 02:53 PMAnother item to add to the debate on Book vs. Web.
Posted by: Hanan Cohen at September 12, 2003 12:05 AMBut you have to hurry, before others patent the idea. Imagine you owning the repository of blogs and links; you cold charge google for their usage of said blogs, and as you reach the 10th million mark, content will definitely be yours. You could charge royalties for links derived from yours, and live like a happy rich entity for the rest of your unnatural life.
This is starting to sound like a Philip K Dick novel!
The centerpiece of my own Philip K. Dick novel! No wonder life seemed to be getting so eerie lately. . . .
Posted by: AKMA at September 12, 2003 02:57 PMThe whole "fear of death" thing is actually why I am using livejournal. I wish I could buy a permanent account with them, but... I have more faith that lj permalinks will actually be permanent than anything I would set up.
Not that anybody would want to read my stuff after I am dead.
Posted by: Forrest at October 22, 2003 08:10 PMI remember reading in Wired years ago about some monks in Virginia(?) who did data entry at the monastary - maybe they could take on the task of site maintenance if it gets too popular.
Found a link:
http://www.electronicscriptorium.com/Company_Profile.html
Another service might be to escrow emails for people to be sent after they die, but you might want to disallow suicide notes.
You could perhaps program an IRC bot with their personality. (I bet I could be programmed as a bot in about 10 lines of code.)
when tom matrullo and I pondered this very thing a year and a half ago, I never thought of AKMA. But it makes perfect sense. Tom, My Morbid Ally, we got our answer.
http://allied.blogspot.com/2002_03_03_allied_archive.html#75001268
http://allied.blogspot.com/2002_03_03_allied_archive.html#75002961
Posted by: jeneane at October 23, 2003 03:10 PM