AKMA’s Random Thoughts

Convergence

Okay, so now I’m the eXecutor of Trevor’s online assets, too. Pretty soon, I’ll be stuck with the decaying remains of my entire circle of friends (it sounds as though Gary’s thinking that way). But Trevor — playing off the “crypt” riff from Joi and David — also has a brilliant idea about converging my newfound status as protector of the digital identities of the departed with our work on the Disseminary: memorial entities for departed bloggers. So this is the deal, David, Joi, Trevor: you make a donation to the Disseminary to fund a project of some sort — a lecture series, a seminar subdomain, a major reference work, a picnic table in the employee’s lunch area, and we’ll name the memorial after you, with links to your blog archives. Plus, I’ll say a mass in your honor.

I can see it now: the Weinberger Lectures in philosophy, technology, and humor, online rival to the Gifford Lectures or the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures — with a link to JOHO ad secula seculorum; The Ito Seminars, led by internationally-mobile and technologically-sophisticated global scholars, with links to Joi Ito Web, the perpetual edition (though presumably the birthday greeter will continually shout-out congratulations for deceased bloggers’ births); and the Bechtel Recycled-Paper Disposable Coffee-Cup Dispenser, with a link to limature (which no one will notice is moribund, since Trevor updates it so rarely).

Act now! Think big! Posterity will honor you forever for your generosity now!