I just found out that long time blogger Lee, died in his sleep while in China where he has been living for the past year. I started reading Lee’s bold take on the news in 2002 when, in a fresh-after-9/11 world, I was just starting to pay attention to politics. Lee was a conservative, operating Right-Thinking.com but later posted on other sites, including his last, LeeinChina.com which covered his exploits in the far east when he moved for work.
His partner on many projects and co-blogger Jim K, also known as the anti-Michael Moore webmaster featured in Michael Moore’s Sicko posted the sad news on Right-Thinking shortly after it happened back in April. I obviously had not kept up with Right-Thinking and just tonight read the sad news.
I’m posting this not because I think random people care that some random blogger has passed away, but because it’s a reminder that I’m going to die some time, maybe randomly like Lee (details are still unknown, but no word was given that he was ill or injured) and someone will have to post on my websites the news of my expiration for my viewers.
Unlike some bloggers who I’ve heard continueing their craft during cancer or some other terminal disease and losing the battle while still active online, Lee was just an average bloke who didn’t wake up one day.
In May the “worlds oldest blogger” died at 97 and in 2007 the wife of ColdFury blogger was killed in a vehicle accident. It’s weird… I have 10 thousand friends on Myspace and have had 3 die in the past several years. I would just visit their page and see memorial comments and tributes. It was around then that I discovered MyDeathSpace.com which covered Myspace member obituaries (most are car accidents). It’s all very weird in the web 2.0 stage.