Comments on: Science Online 2010: Shakespeare wasn’t a semantic web guy

By: ClintJCL

ClintJCL — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:26:49 +0000

I think it would be nice if Flickr kept photostreams at a Pro level after people died.

But then we’d have all these people faking deaths to get free flickr pro. Argh.

I have a future dated post set to my 100th birthday, 1/13/2074, thanking wordpress for keeping my blog alive for so long… If they don’t, it will never post, and they wont get thanked. So it evaluates properly no matter what happens :D

By: ideonexus

ideonexus — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:31:29 +0000

Yeah… The whole death thing has been bothering me in that respect too. I usually pay my webhost to keep two years of hosting lined up, but after that, except for archive.org, I’m gone from the interwebs.

By: ClintJCL

ClintJCL — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:27:27 +0000

It is indeed a maddening thing. When my 1993-2008 webpage finally died, pretty much every link to my own content that I had ever posted died — and there wasn’t a damn thing I could do about it. :/

Now, I could register my own domain name, but then I’m spending money, and the same thing will still happen when I die.