Legacy Matters
From eclexys via The Practical Archivist
I would have loved to read my grandparents’ blogs, seen their photostreams, watched their videoblogs one by one. Beautiful anachronism, and wonderful to experience people whose genes you share, who live in another time that, in some ways, feels more like another place.
To hell with posterity. I love imagining even just one of my grandchildren, or great-grandchildren, or farther-off descendants, reading my blog and this long-ago person snapping into clearer, bizarrely intimate focus.
We’ve leaving voices to echo through time. That is, if bitrot doesn’t set in first. And that, to me, makes blogging somewhat less strange, and somewhat more beautiful.
Hey! Glad you enjoyed the post. Have you checked out Rudy Rucker's book on the Lifebox, The Seashell, and the Soul? I have a feeling you'd enjoy his idea of the Lifebox.
Posted by: gordsellar at May 19, 2007 8:32 PM