There is one powerful counterargument that I can see, and goes something like this: “E-accounts are like rental storage lockers. If I enter into a contract to rent a storage locker, place my property within it, and then die, then yes the rental contract is terminated but the property within the locker remains ‘my’ property [...]
Of course I don’t. I may own the content of my blog, in a copyright sense, but I don’t own the site itself. There is nothing within Blogger that I can possibly lay claim to. Compare and contrast: If I decide to migrate to TypePad and import my archives into a new A Stitch in [...]
The Washington Post has a major piece revisiting an issue that arose a while back and about which I blogged previously: Are e-accounts (email, web publishing, blog, etc.) inheritable (actually the correct term is “devisable”)? As computers continue to permeate our lives, what happens to digital bits of information when their owners pass away has [...]
I remember a saying, don’t know from where, that went something like this: “The Russians drink so heavily because they’re so sad. The Germans drink so heavily because they’re so happy.” Which side of the fence is Bulgaria on? The annual beer consumption in Bulgaria has reached 61 litres per capita last year, while in [...]







