Great piece! I hadn’t seen it since I’ve been down in Irvine. It really captured that empty feeling I got when my email box evaporated in spring of 2002, losing some really precious logged messages.

[...] Paying for something online doesn’t seem to guarantee much. http://www.portigal.com/blog/object-obituary-my... reply [...]

[...] Just a few months back, Steve Portigal wrote an interesting “object obituary” on the loss of his Flickr account. His photos were backed up; but all the related meta-data — descriptions, comments, tags, friend connections, etc. — were lost. This is a case where I believe it’s not even possible to back up yourself. http://www.portigal.com/blog/object-obituary-my-flickr-meta-content/ [...]

[...] My flickr photos were lost forever and I wrote the obituary [...]