Don Park has a fascinating post:
Yesterday, I dreamt that my father died. So I woke up upset and disturbed. Disturbed because my father is going to Paris today, a trip I have a bad foreboding about. Chewing bad mojo all morning led me to think about using blogs as a memorial of sort and then spilled out into thinking about dead people in social networks.
Much here to be fired by:
It would also be interesting to turn my blog into a wiki-ish blog after I died so that my friends can post to my blog for one reason or another. In a sense, 'I' continue to live within the mind of my friends so 'I' am still blogging from the grave. ... a 'center' of a social network doesn't have to coordinate or even be aware of the synergy he or she creates. Come to think of it, the center doesn't even have to be alive. For example, people who met each other at a funeral form a social network around a dead person.
This is what all traditions built up around a central figure, institution or event eventually go on to do, of course. I think Don has just articulated something quite fundamental to the way this part of the web should be developed. The comments he has received lead to these relevant links: anil dash, Ty Longley (Great White) and rc3.org.
