Queer...? Errie? Coincidental?

Came across this comment on a fren's blog....

Send a sudden shiver down my spine as i "explore" the details...

The title of the comments was:
" What happens to your online self when you die? "

Amid all the comments and criticism on bloggings and bloggers, this blog message speaks for itself that blogging isn't a self-exhibitionist act, nor an act of a "loser", etc....

This is a true news, which i believed was in the newspaper sometime not long ago. perhaps a few days ago...

Adapted from an annonymous commentor:

"What happens to your online self when you die? There have been many cases of death hoaxes where people have faked their own deaths on the internet, but for those who *really* die, what happens to their blogs and websites?

Take for example, the case of Sek Man Ng, who was murdered, along with his sister, moments after he updated his site. It was his blog that put the killer in jail.

http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=toto247

Sek Man's xanga site is still floating in cyberspace, providing a posthumous dialogue between his mind and the world out there. This online conversation continues with no indication of being closed down. It is a story with no closure, no final chapter, and no segueway into the last days of his life. Sek Man's physical presence may have come to an end, but his virtual and cyber presence lives on. Perhaps this is why his story is so incredibly fascinating - his blog is an online, modern-day equivalent of Anne Frank, with a beginning, a middle, but no end. The only ending we know of is the tragic one that we have read about from other sources. It is a story that has been left open to interpretation. Like an abrupt end to a relationship, we are left wondering what went wrong, why, and what could have been.

Examples such as the one above have grave implications on issues such as online identity, corporeality, and embodiment. We put so much of ourselves and our thoughts into our computers that it is possible to discover more about an individual by looking at his blog and his computer than talking to him or her. Should we lose this data, we lose a great part of our identity.

Will our blogs one day serve as posthumous witnesses to our online exitence or will they, like Sek Man's journal, float in cyberspace, waiting for someone to remove them?

The last entry in his blog, i believe, reveals the identity of the killer.
kinda eerie....

sets us thinking huh?
A blog reveals more than you think.... How true...