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digital immortality -- what to do when I die ...

I decided not to become a writer in the traditional sense, but to develop what in retrospect may be called virtual poetry:
see write.eliens.net
you may also look at https://www.facebook.com/aeliens to see some more recent examples,
these as well as the whole collection as for example under http://create.eliens.net and http://serious.eliens.net
where originally developed for educational purposes, but more and more became to embody my view on things, see http://ask.eliens.net
and I consider the whole collection of material as what one may call my digital immortality, hence the question: what to do when I die ...

From the indications below, it should be obvious what to do, make sure the bills are paid, despite my dislike of http://money.eliens.net

two domains are of the utmost importance: (see below):
-- virtualpoetry.tv -- hosted by mijndomein.nl
-- eliens.net -- managed by cscglobal.com

mijndomein.nl -- contact: support@mijndomein.nl  -- payment is automatic from ING account, approx 60 euro/year
cscglobal.com -- contact: dbs-globalservice@cscglobal.com  -- payment is by yearly invoice, approx 43 euro/year

I owe sincere gratitude to Tia Mitchell,  since she played a crucial role in resolving the problems incurred by a missed invoice, David J. Manley III, for his support in the process of deciding whether to transfer eliens.net to another company, and his assistence in restoring access to the cscglobal domainmanager, and last but not least Evan Boggs, who played an essential role in setting up the subdomain structure of eliens.net. I also wish to express gratitude to Daniel from mijndomein.nl for his tolerance to exceed the quota-limit, and his continuous support and encouragement, which contributed to my motivation to correct errors and work on refinements!

please make sure that the invoice(s) for cscglobal are paid in time!


over het domein: virtualpoetry.tv:

het domein http://eliens.virtualpoetry.tv/ wil ik gebruiken voor
> (partiele) opslag en toegankelijkheid van mijn website, nu bereikbaar via:
> http://eliens.virtualpoetry.tv/
> deze site is door de Koninklijke Bibliotheek aangewezen als "waardevol
> digitaal erfgoed" en wordt door hen ook gearchiveerd, echter is om
> auteurs-rechtelijke redenen niet publiek toegankelijk.
> Een harde toezegging van de VU voor permanente hosting van mijn site
> is nog niet afgegeven, hoewel de beleidsmakers (de faculteits en de
> afdelingsdirecteur) enthusiast zijn en hun ondersteuning hebben
> beloofd. Echter mijn vertrouwen in de webhosting van de VU  is niet
> 100 %, vandaar dat ik naar mogelijkheden zoek om mijn site op een
> andere wijze permanent te hosten, zoals bv op de boven aangegeven
> virtual poetry site. Voor meer informatoe over mijn site, zie
> http://domains.eliens.net



an overview of the subdomains for eliens.net can be found in: domains

transparent: alias
reference: forward

for the most current update, see repair


email webarchivering

motivation for maintaining eliens.net :


as an explanation for my urgency, I want to briefly indicate the reasons for my urgent request to support me in keeping my account secure, that is to help me arrange some form of automatic payment so that the existence of the domain eliens.net and its sub-domains will be garantueed for the coming (undefinite number of) years.
My website (eliens.net and its subdomains) has been elected by the Dutch Royal Library as valuable digital heritage and is archived on their site (see email webarchivering). The domain eliens.net and its subdomains is an index on this site, which is partially archived at eliens.virtualpoetry.tv which I have set up over the last years, with great support from Evan from your support department (in CC).
This site in a way consitutes my digital immortality and is used, so to speak as promotion for myself, that is my current professional activity (as a retired professor in creative technology / new media), as you can see from my recent facebook posts on https://www.facebook.com/aeliens Hopefully this brief summary clarifies my motivation to set up a simple form of automatic payment so that the index to my site provided by eliens.net and its subdomains is garantueed even after, yes, my dead, without bothering my wife or children with the details of arranging such payments.

update:

After my retirement, I decided to transfer my site to mijndomein after I received a message from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague that my site was selected as digital heritage, because I was not sure whether the VU still wanted to host my site after my retirement. However, we came to an agreement under which I could still use my email, and update my website. Nevertheless, I continued uploading all the material to mijndomein, and used this site not only as a backup, but as the main site to which all the subdomain links of my domain eliens.net were directed. In this I got to full support of one of the managers, Daniel, despite the fact that the amount of data exceeded the normal limt of their webhosting accounts. This inspired me to continue working on the site, by adding links, correcting errors, and making the whole site, as much as is possible with such a complex entity as a densely linked website, into a coherent whole. However, at some point, in early 2024, mijndomein made a transfer to a new system, a process which is at the moment of writing still going on, which endangered my site, in the sense that allowing an oversized data-set seemed no longer possible. So, with regard to the potential endangerment of my site, that is my digital immortality, I made the decision to investigate whether the original VU site could still be used as the main source. Now, this process is just starting, and still going on. We will have to see where this leads, and complete this update at a later time, although I have to admit that it took some courage to look my digital mortality in the eyes! For now, I thank Jacco van Ossenbruggen, one of my inspiring ex-students, who recently became a full professor, for supporting me by continuing my (formerly) professional relationship with the VU, thus allowing me to coninue working on my site!

background:

I started my site early in the nineteen nineties, after I was summoned to teach multimedia at the VU, This lead to an online syllabus, named topical media & game development. I later extended this approach to give an overview of my courses at the VU. My approach in teaching and the exploration of technology led to some conflicts which are partly recorded in gesprek -- de achtergonden van een conflict, but also brought me to the attention of some collegues in the Netherlands. When I was invited to become professor at the newly invented curriculum of creative technology at the University of Twente, with as one of my tasks to give a course in web technology, I further extended my site with higly interlinked slides, of which a summary can be found in talk.eliens.net, and an example of my use of such slides can be found in a talk: creative technology @ VU, a talk which I never gave by the way, but had prepared just in case ... Well, and as you can see below, life goes on, and, in a way, I still follow the crowd, also as, I repeat, a relief from the stress of a busy life with children!

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