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I’m excited that my panel submission has been accepted to the voting stage of the SXSW Interactive festival, happening March 11 – 15, 2011 in Austin, Texas. More than 2,400 proposals have been submitted for consideration. Please vote for my session from August 9 to 27 to help it through to the next round of [...]

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If I feel that a post I’ve written over on DeathAndDigitalLegacy.com may be of interest to readers of this blog, I may post an excerpt here. It is intended as a way to alert people to possible relevant content, without re-posting the entire piece. However, I recognize the sensitive nature of the topic may not [...]

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For much of the last year, I’ve been working on a side project to research, speak and write about issues surrounding digital legacy. It’s been an incredible experience to meet and interview experts in archival issues, lawyers, writers, service providers, wills and estate planners, identity specialists, palliative care doctors and some mighty big thinkers in [...]

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I’m pleased to announce the launch of DeathAndDigitalLegacy.com.
Since first starting to explore this subject more than two years ago, I’ve realized that it stretches wider than I ever could have imagined. As I delved deeper, questions surrounding law, security, privacy, bereavement, preservation, development, and even immortality came to the forefront.
Speaking at PodCamp Montreal last [...]

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Yesterday The New York Times ran the interview I did about The Digital Afterlife and the need to appoint a digital executor:
Internet Protocol is Jenna Wortham’s advice column for technology. The question was:
Not to be morbid, but I have a lot of private information and details stored on my computer — in various Google Chat [...]

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