Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Bibliofuture: After Death, Protecting Your 'Digital Afterlife'

Chances are good that you have hundreds, maybe thousands of e-mails stored on remote servers or

in your computer. You might have a Facebook page, or a Tumblr or Twitter account. And you might have countless photos in a Flickr album. All that information amounts to a digital profile of sorts, which raises an interesting question: What happens to that online material when we die?
That depends on how you prepare beforehand, says John Romano. Romano and a colleague, Evan Carroll, edit The Digital Beyond, a website that helps users plan what happens to their online content after their death. Romano and Carroll both join Dave Davies for a discussion about online digital legacies.

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