What will happen to your online writings when you die? That’s a question many writers will deal with someday. Over the weekend, The New York Times Magazine took a look at a growing industry that will help you preserve your work.
The story focused on the story of Mac Tonnies (pictured, via), the 34-year-old author of the Posthuman Blues blog who died unexpectedly in 2009. An army of Internet readers banded together to save his work and preserve his memory online. But as the article points out, not all authors are so lucky.
Here’s an excerpt: “Mark Plattner, who lives in St. Louis and met Tonnies a dozen years ago through the comments section of another blog, decided that Posthuman Blues needed to survive. He used software called Sitesucker to put a backup of the entire thing — pictures, videos, links included — on a hard drive. In all, Plattner has about 10 gigabytes of material … He intends to store this material through his own hosting account, just as soon as he finds time to organize it all.”