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Comment on Seattle entrepreneur profile: Kushal Chakrabarti by International Women’s Day & the power of microloans « Social Glu

International Women’s Day & the power of microloans « Social Glu — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:08:09 +0000

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Comment on Craftmonkey: Connects crafters with the folks who love them by Matt

Matt — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:02:26 +0000

Wow. that looks incredible simple, yet very useful. great job.

Comment on 2-0-1-2 Launch! Tools to Get Your New Biz Going in the New Year by mriggen

mriggen — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:59 +0000

Thanks Tamara! Best of luck and a happy New Year to you as well!

Comment on 2-0-1-2 Launch! Tools to Get Your New Biz Going in the New Year by Tamara Gruber (@tgruber)

Tamara Gruber (@tgruber) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:32:27 +0000

Nice list Michelle! Best of luck with the new venture.

Comment on Facebook as modern graveyard by Mariah Cherem (@mariahc)

Mariah Cherem (@mariahc) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:49:30 +0000

This is such a complex topic. It’s something that I’ve been thinking about on and off a lot over the past year — for both personal and academic reasons. The New York Times Magazine also had this article which touches on a bit of this territory: http://nyti.ms/tMMdBP (Cyberspace When You’re Dead)

The most surreal thing about this article for me is that the professor in whose class I first read it is, in fact, now gone. He didn’t have a personal facebook page, but in his illness, students created a facebook group to fundraise for cancer research in his honor.

Now and then, when students are thinking about him, someone will post a note to the group. How we mourn when our digital shadows and artifacts remain is a strange thing. We can say that we wish folks would erase all trace of our facebook, blogs, etc. — but that would be the same as burning many of our books and physical possessions.

How do we preserve someone’s legacy as we move more and more into a digital world? For example, I love reading letters that artists wrote to each other long ago. Would I be as interested in their texts and emails to each other? Probably not most of them — but maybe some? I’m not sure…

Comment on Facebook as modern graveyard by Cindy FrewenWuellner (@Urbanverse)

Cindy FrewenWuellner (@Urbanverse) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:01:08 +0000

i knew a twitter jedi @imadnaffa who passed suddenly at 47. His complicated rss fed auto-tweets ran for another couple of weeks till his company figured out how to shut it down. I couldnt bear to unfollow him so he visited me hourly. At first shocking, then spooky and finally just normal. it was his ghost.

strangely, his final tweet Sept 19, 2011 said: How to launch a Twitter chat bit.ly/mXuZQJ

We don’t die on twitter or facebook till some loved one pulls the plug.

Comment on Facebook as modern graveyard by mriggen

mriggen — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:06:47 +0000

Thanks much, Katy and Kirsten. That’s horrible about seeing people in the right-hand column. I know FB made it possible to notify them if someone is deceased so that won’t happen, but that apparently deletes a lot of their information that family members may not want deleted. No, I don’t think breaks are clean anymore, although I do think the generation currently growing up with Facebook etc. will not find it as unsettling to post a memorial online as we do.

It’s interesting and strange to witness the impact that technology is having on this particular aspect of our (no longer) private lives.

Comment on Facebook as modern graveyard by Kirsten DiChiappari

Kirsten DiChiappari — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:12:54 +0000

I have several FB friends who have passed away in the last few years. I’m guilty of staring blankly at their pages and reading the raw posts of other friends and family who feel obliged to comment. I’ve never posted on those pages – it feels too weird to me to do that, yet I seem to be comfortable just acting like a guest at a wake who listens to everyone’s conversations but doesn’t chime in.

Beautifully written Michelle — and so very true.

Comment on Facebook as modern graveyard by Katy

Katy — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:17:01 +0000

i have two dead facebook friends. they appear in the right hand column every so often, as examples of people who need more friends and could i suggest some? i find this funny and oh so macabre.

i hope joe will take my profile down immediately when i die, and burn me to ashes at the same time. i don’t even like people to look at me when i’m asleep.

no more clean breaks, i guess.

i loved this, MRR. thanks!

Comment on Facebook as modern graveyard by ajinkyakale

ajinkyakale — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:40:32 +0000

nice angle on the what-happens-to-the-dead-man’s-profile-page :)