The New York Times notices Web-based rituals of death, especially around MySpace (of course). This is the flip side of internet panics and anxieties: the soothing appearance of convention.
It's fascinating hold old the theme is. We blogged about MySpace deaths last December. I remember visidly the deaths of several friends, learning and mourned via the intenet, through the 1990s . Howard Rheingold, ever prescient, wrote about death in virtual communities in the first edition of The Virtual Community...n 1993.
(via Preoccupations)
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