links for 2010-03-09

You may not think that your website, your blog, your freelance business, is something you need to think about in your last will and testament, but it is. It’s an asset you own, and it needs to be sold, dissolved, or left to someone you trust to continue running it.

The notion of immortality has been redefined in a world rife with archived digital information. Everything from daily tweets to personal bank records lives online long after we’re gone, with some data being more public and readily accessible than others.  But where the sum total of all this leads – if someone were interested in digging it all up – is forming a fairly accurate portrait of an individual’s life, albeit with some obvious gaps.