Jeff Dowler and I were talking today, and the always pleasant subject of 
"passing on" came up.
Jeff and I noticed how there are people, long deceased, who still have an active presence online, some of whom still glean a large amount of comments. This brought us to think of our online presence being a legacy worthy of incorporating into our wills.
What if we have an extremely successful blog that is bringing in business, we could bequeath it to someone interested in carrying it on. That could be our heirs or even a business competitor willing to pay our heirs for the opportunity.
If we don't update our blogs Google will stop coming around to visit. If we don't update our Facebook and Twitter status, people will move on. Think of all those poor keywords just lying there gathering dust. Think of all those photos we took just getting yellow with age after the site to which we uploaded them disappears.
We owned Smalltown U.S.A. Do we want to see a new sheriff moving in?
Do we really want to let all our hard work die with us? Maybe we should incorporate the user names and passwords for all our sites into the will, together with our bank account numbers?
Hey, nothing wrong with 21st Century planning.
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