Via Lisbeth, who’s researching the deaths of characters in online gameworlds like Everquest: The Last Email, a website that stores those emails to your loved ones (and others) with the things you could never tell them while you were still alive.
It seems like a service begging for a story consisting of those last emails. Of course they wouldn’t simply be messages of love. No, no, far more complicated. I guess Uncle Buddy’s Phantom Funhouse kind of does this, actually.
I'm Jill Walker Rettberg, an associate professor at the University of Bergen, and I do research on how people tell stories online. I'm affiliated with the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies. I've been a research blogger since October 2000.
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October 1st, 2004 at 10:50
Sounds like something that has to be provided by google or amazon. “We know you, we know what to tell your relatives'’