Blogging Wills – Blogs and Death

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Blogging Wills – Blogs and Death

James Joyner | Thursday, December 21, 2006

Darren Rowse has given some though to the question, “What happens to your blogs when you die?”

Some things he has made sure his wife has in case of his untimely demise:

Contact details for partners – I have a number of blog partners that would be able to help her navigate some of the logistics of managing my blogs
Contact details for trusted other bloggers – a few others who know enough to be useful
Passwords and Contact details for Advertising Programs and Affiliate Programs – to be able to access and manage income
Contact details of bloggers who work for me – a number of my blogs are written these days by others.
Contact details for web hosts – without these the blogs fall over and income disappears
Passwords for Paypal accounts
Backup details – for blogs and computers
Blog and hosting passwords – to give her (or those who help her) access
Instructions on what to do – a few notes on what I’d suggest she does. Which blogs she could sell (and who could help her sell them), which to allow to run (and who to write on them), what my agreements are with different people etc

A good idea, at least for blogs that are generating any significant income. Blogs that have been around a while will continue to do so, as he notes, “on a decreasing scale over time.”

About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.

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