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What happens online, when we die?
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Many people now live in a world where a lot of their social connections take place online. With the advent in Facebook, the web is now a hub for our real social lives. Most people appreciate the tools that platforms such as Facebook & MySpace provide to facilitate a richer life in the real world.

I personally use Facebook daily, for various reasons. From a simple status update to inform friends of something on my mind to writing on a contact's wall or sending personal messages rather than using email. If I travel I will most often post photos I take to Facebook and it's a great way to remember when people's birthdays are coming up (TakingITGlobal also does this!). The longer you use a website like Facebook, the more intertwined our personal lives get with this online social universe.

Tonight I was reading a tech blog only to realise when I came to the latest post that the author had actually died. This struck me somewhat and planted a thought in my head: What happens to our online identity when we die? Face it, we're all heading to the same destination (death), regardless of what you believe happens afterwards. When death strikes a regular Facebook (or other social networking site) user, how will our contacts know and what should happen to everything we have published online?

I guess to an extent, the answers to these questions are individual to each of us. Perhaps there should be a mechanism for close (and nominated) relatives/friends to inform all of the websites of which the deceased was a member. Or perhaps it's up to us to 'leave the keys' to all of our online spaces to a designated person for he/she to inform should we pass away.

This is something which will evolve with the development of the way we use the internet in our personal lives. For now though, maybe I should stop being so morbid...

July 10, 2008 | 9:52 PM Comments  1 comments



Energy zap
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Today it feels like I've hit a brick wall. I could attribute it to a lack of enough caffeine, but I've had 300mg so far which is enough to get my going. But it's just not happening today. This effects many things, not least work, which is important.

Time to find some (legal & healthy of course) stimulants...

July 2, 2008 | 1:40 PM Comments  1 comments

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Honeymoon over for Obama
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Watching the Daily Show today I couldn't help but feel that Jon Stewart was being too tough on Barack Obama. Now I know that journalists sometimes try to be balanced, but I really think Jon is making a mistake for lambasting Obama in this way. Some say that the media has been helping Obama's campaign since somewhere around the first Democratic primary that he won, although I don't share in this opinion. I think he got as much trouble from the media as he got praise, and generally the Clinton camp had similar treatment.

Now! Isn't it just hypocritical to start tearing the candidate apart now, just because he's the official Democratic choice for president? Perhaps it's a problem with the media psyche; you build someone up and then you knock them down (if indeed the theory that he had special treatment is true).

Either way I think journalists like Jon Stewart, who have been staunchly anti-Bush should be careful - if they start to make the cracks in Obama's campaign seem wide it may hurt the Democrats when it comes to the general election. And then the US, and the world, will be stuck with another Republican president whose views are sometimes similar to the incumbent.

June 24, 2008 | 4:59 PM Comments  1 comments



Back to TigBlogs

My last post on here was on March 11th 2007, six months ago. In fact, the last year or two hasn't seen as many posts to my tigblog as I used to make. To be honest, with the huge boom in blogging over the last couple of years, major blogging platforms have dwarfed tigblogs as a place to write. I've tried to set up a couple of blogs, here and there on various subjects, but I find myself returning to the natural comfort of blogging via TakingITGlobal. This site has grown so much since I first joined in early 2003, I've also grown quite a bit!

Joining this site set me on a journey, which continues to this day. I've gotten a lot more out of life thanks to the knowledge that I'm not the only young person in the world who wants to make a difference. I've been inspired to keep trying to do my own thing. But as I said before, it's all too easy to get distracted from TIG by other social networks, such as Facebook and the like.

I think from now on I'll do all of my blog posts here, and integrate it into my Facebook account using RSS. Actually, I think it would be a great idea for the guys to consider creating a TIG Facebook app (if they haven't already) - Facebook has the raw power of a massive social network, and I think TIG can compete with that by allowing some level of integration between the two; users shouldn't have to choose between Facebook or TIG, and there are benefits to be had for using both.

So the last six months has been pretty crazy, as per usual. I started working for the British Prime Minister (Tony Blair) and the rulling party, Labour in January, and that assignment ended in July. Whilst there, I launched the first YouTube video channel for an acting head of government, which was very exciting. Since July I've been figuring out what it is I want to do, and now I'm putting a plan into action. The first step of which involves leaving London again (having been here for two straight years now) and returning to somewhere a bit more sunny.

I hope I keep up the TIGBlog, and I look forward to many entries over the coming months.

September 23, 2007 | 10:44 AM Comments  0 comments

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Carbon offset Range Rover!

Amazing...

I was walking past a car showroom this afternoon, and I happened to have a closer look at this lovely Range Rover that was parked outside. You see, I love cars, I can't deny it, and I'm pretty sure that if I had the money I would probably own some pretty environmentally-unfriendly vehicles. The Range Rover itself is great: strong, powerful, comfortable, British etc. etc. One BIG problem however is how much carbon it dumps on the atmosphere.

Well thank you Range Rover for coming up with a solution. This car had a sticker on it's windshield saying that it's carbon neutral upto 45,000 miles of use. Literally, the Land Rover company that makes it will plant enough trees to offset the damage it does over that period. This is great news!

Environmental people always go on about how much damage 4X4s do to the environment. Well, now they no longer need to moan about the Range Rover.

Now I just need to find the 60,000 pounds to buy one. Hmmm...

March 11, 2007 | 4:40 PM Comments  3 comments

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