Thu, Apr 22 2004

Blog Writers: Coal For Future Diamonds?

Good for Eric for bringing up a great topic yesterday when he encouraged us all to think about what people will be doing with technology in about a hundred years, and why reserving that domain name you have now as a long-term commitment might not be the bargain it seems to be at first thought.

But, Eric, what if you exit this life and your blog (now known only to some of us) becomes even more well-known and you attain some sort of posthumous fame--or, better yet--infamy? Even if technology changes, don't you want to leave all possibility for future greatness for your loved ones? Uh--wait a minute. Can you do that? There's a question for the financial advisors and copyright attorneys out there. Can people bequeath a domain name and its use to someone else?

I have a bone to pick with Eric. He's always saying he's not a real writer. I have no idea what the man's talking about. He's as real as they come. He writes, and he asks a lot of "what if" kinds of questions, fully admitting he doesn't know all the answers. He writes, and he makes the rest of us think about what he's written. That's a writer. Maybe what Eric means is that he doesn't make a decent living by what he writes. Neither do most of us. Ah, but notice he writes anyway. He's just like the rest of us keyboard jockeys.

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