Their bodies may be gone, but their user names, passwords, and online personae linger on.
As our PCs and our emails hold more and more of our most intimate musings, and as boomers face mortality, the question of how to treat our online lives in the afterlife is a big one. I hear more and more [...]

What if website operators could spot troublemakers in cyberspace based on a single score? What if that score stuck as you surfed the web? ReputationShare is a product that allows site operators to share information about your reputation as an upstanding digital citizen.

Now that you can track what people say about you (your family, your employees, your product, your town…whatever it is that you hold dear), what can you do about it? Managing your reputation is a much thornier issue than tracking it.

In cyberspace, whether you’ve been a saint, sinner, or some combination of the two, your reputation sticks. Forever. Long after the real world has moved past its obsession with your high school foibles, tawdry affairs, or crooked deals, the Internet elephant never forgets.
I’ve lived it. A few years back I made a dumb business decision [...]