Posts Tagged ‘digital archiving’
Poor Dead Steve Jobs May Not Own His Dead Image
15, Jan 2012Who Owns You Image After You Die? On the Media (January 13, 2012) Really interesting radio story by WNYC’s On the Media programme on what happens to an individual’s ‘image’ after he or she dies. Here is the set-up: A Chinese toy maker is set to release a Steve Jobs action figure next month, but [...]
Virtual Graves for Armistice Day
11, Nov 2011How to visit a Virtual Grave Alison Winward, The Guardian (November 10, 2010) Armistice Day Marked Around the World – In Pictures The Guardian (November 11, 2011) The War Graves Photographic Project Commonwealth War Graves Commission A quick post for Armistice Day (in the UK), Veterans Day (in the US) and Remembrance Day (in Canada). [...]
Virtual Graves for Armistice Day
11, Nov 2010How to visit a Virtual Grave Alison Winward, The Guardian (November 10, 2010) Armistice Day Marked Around the World – In Pictures The Guardian (November 11, 2011) The War Graves Photographic Project Commonwealth War Graves Commission A quick post for Armistice Day (in the UK), Veterans Day (in the US) and Remembrance Day (in Canada). [...]
Digital Death Day: London Calling
19, Sep 2010Digital Death Day London Saturday, October 9th 9am-5pm Centre for Creative Collaboration University of London 16 Acton Street (King’s Cross Station) WC1X 9NG London Last May, Meg wrote up a really interesting piece on a Digital Death Day un-conference in California. That post, Digital Death Day is Every Day, is part of Death Ref’s ongoing [...]
Video Game Ways to Die
4, Aug 2009I am not a gamer. All those newfangled surround sound polygons make me want to hurl. But as a plucky youth with a computer geek dad, I had the fond and formative experience of devouring Sierra computer adventure games, especially the King’s Quest series. I recently discovered via MetaFilter that a handful of painstaking souls [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Humor|Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: digital archiving, games, thanatos