An occassional acquaintance of mine died unexpectedly last month.
He was an avid user of social media and had all sorts of free accounts set up to do things like locate stories based on keywords and tweet the links. He also published an automated “newspaper” (feed aggregation) using the Paper.li service.
So…thing is…I still regularly receive information from him—complete with his account picture—and there’s the occassional useful link. So, in one sense, he’s transcended death (…or “ascended to the cloud”, as one of my more technical readers suggested…). I notice that his Twitter followers are still growing…
As all of these services as free, I guess his influence could continue indefinitely—unless his keywords are extremely contemporary.
As I type this I’m hard at work creating some automated content about ancient Egypt, classical music and Nokia…
