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March 27, 2007
Rites funéraires pour Cathy au Blogistan / Cathy's "funeral rites in Blogistan"

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(Note: Back to bilingual after an English-only somber mode...)

(UPDATE: Fox News: As Cathy Seipp lay dying, her nemesis took his parting shot on the Web.

L'amie Sandra Tsing Loh, une irrésistible comique de Los Angeles est complice de longue date de l'amie Cathy Seipp, sans doute la plus célèbre blogueuse étant passée de vie à trépas. Elle raconte dans le Los Angeles Times les derniers jours de Cathy emportée par un cancer, pratiquement en direct dans la blogosphère: les blogs affolés apprenant la nouvelle de son admission à l'hôpital, l'ascension dans le classement Technorati, et même les funérailles enregistrées et diffusées sur le Web par le plus bizzare blogger de Los Angeles, Luke Ford, également auteur de la bio de Cathy la plus débridée. Sans oublier le cyber-stalker qui publia une fausse confession en ligne de Cathy sur son lit de mort, et le plus important de tout: les réactions de sa fille ado, Maia.

Pal Sandra Tsing Loh, an irresistible Los Angeles comic, is a long-time accomplice of Cathy Seipp, who is probably the most famous blogger to have passed away. She describes in the Los Angeles Times the last days of Cathy, killed by cancer, practically live from the blogosphère: the panicked blogs finding out the news about her being rushed to the hospital the marching up the Technorati ratings, and even the funeral recorded and published online by the most bizarre blogger in Los Angeles, Luke Ford, also author of Cathy's wackiest biography. Not to mention the cyberstalker who published a false deathbed confession online and the most important thing of all: the reactions of Cathy's teenage daughter, Maia.

Imaginez si les amis de Cathy avait téléchargé Twitter, le nouveau service de blog succint pour téléphones portables. Le service me semble complètement cauchemardesque en principe: les usagers s'envoient des petits messages sur leur occupation du jour pour se prévenir les uns et les autres dans leur réseau que "John est dans l'avion pour Denver" tandis que "Tony est au bar Rustic Inn: qui l'aime le suive."

Imagine if the team of Cathy's friends had downloaded Twitter, this new rough blogging/IMing service for mobile phones. It sounds like a total nightmare on principle: users send each other short message/updates about their whereabouts to warn each other that "John is on a plane to Denver" while "Tony is drinking at the Rustic Inn: those who love him can join him there."

Mais Twitter peut-être drôlement utile dans le contexte d'une urgence, comme l'effort groupé autour d'un malade et de sa famille: informer tout le monde d'un coup que le patient "a changé de chambre et est dans la tour sud de l'hôpital, 3ième étage" ou que l'"on a besoin de quelqu'un pour aller chercher un tel au train ou à l'aéroport." Bref, Cathy avait un tel réseau d'amis dévoués (qui organisait leur entraide grâce à un calendrier en ligne Google) qu'on aurait pu bénéficier sans doute des toutes dernières technologies pour coordonner au mieux et enrichir "ces rites funéraires du Blogistan" décrits par Sandra.

But Twitter could be very useful it seems in the context of an emergency, such as a team group effort around a patient and the family: how to inform everybody at once that the patient has "moved to the South tower of the hospital, 3rd floor," or that '"we need someone to pick up this or that person at the train station." In short, Cathy had such a network of devoted friends (who would organize the help collectively thanks to an online Google calendar ) that we could have benefitted from the latest technologies to better coordinate and enrich "Blogistan's funerary rituals" as described by Sandra.

+ Tom Christie @ the LA Weekly reports from the funerals: "She was consistently, truly vital, and there aren’t many people you can say that about."

Photo by David Rensin (thinking about Cathy Seipp.)


Posted by Emmanuelle at March 27, 2007 10:31 PM | TrackBack
Comments


Was he really her nemesis? That's what he desperately WANTED to be, true.

Posted by: Jim Treacher at March 28, 2007 9:44 AM


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