June 27, 2004

"In 1997, Predator helped set up Catalyst, a radical community activist tech collective in Sydney, Australia. He also wrote a 230 page weblog on his experience with cancer from the time he was diagnosed until three days before his death. His blog portrays a poignant story which documents thoroughly the ups and downs, the triumphs and turmoil of everyday life in this, our battle for a better world."

"An Urban Explorer, he was a part of the Cave Clan - whose membership extends around Australia and internationally. The tribe has, over the years, explored literally thousands of miles of underground passage ways, drains, mines and other components of the urban vasculature. Amongst other things, Predator was also a dumpster diver, anarcho syndicalist, molecular biologist, squatter, and well known good guy." Predator is one of the very first bloggers to document his own death. As our self-obsessed, internet linked generation gets older, this seems likely to represent a future trend. Monkeys, discuss.

  • Excellent. I've often wondered (since the whatsername scandal) when a real life person was going to blog how he died. And also, I wonder, what's going to happen when a high-profile blogger, a blogger with a following, dies? Got to happen, sooner or later.
  • good post, thanks.
  • Wow..powerful stuff. Thanks.