Dave Winer explains why bloggers want future-safe archives. Archive.org tries it's best to save everything, but that's not likely. So what can you do now?

Write a Blogger Last Will and Testament...

1. List your digital assets.
• Online assets
• like domain names, blogs, community posts, or anywhere you might have logged in.
• Offline assets
• like the content of your phones, PDAs, disk drives, CDs/DVDs/floppies
• Enablers
• like hosting services, email accounts, office apps
2. For each asset, list what you want done with them when you're dead (or as good as). Choose one or more options for each.
   • Kill
     • Destroy this by (insert date) or if (insert conditions)
     • example: delete my pr0n
   • Keep
     • Preserve forever (a verrrrrrrrrry long time)
     • Static - freeze my works
     • Dynamic - friend me after me I'm dead, leave your comments when I cannot fight back
       • Name a moderator
   • Add
     • parting thoughts - "If you're reading this, I'm dead." "Here's the short version of my big project."
   • Abandon
     • Life's ephemeral, so's by blog
   • Sell
     • Cash out for the estate. Maybe there's a market value
   • Bequeath (give) to someone else
     • To a family member
     • To a cause
     • To a business (work you were doing)
   • Transform
     • Compile your digital photo collection into a book
     • Create a highlights reel of your video for your funeral ceremony
     • Translate your words into Mandarin
3. Fund your plans
   • Create an account
   • Set aside money to fund an annuity that will pay for your plans. Assume you'll be spending every year in the future what you spend now.  
   • Start early: put the power of interest to work for you
   • Diversify: forever is a long time
4. Arrange an executor
   • Talk to lawyers, CPAs and others about how to set up a legal entity to execute your wishes
   • Confirm your intentions are clear, complete and specific.
   • Check for legal jurisdictions: are some of your legal assets saved on servers operated in another country? You may need to have a will for each of those countries, complying with each legal system.
   • Tell your friends, family, neighbors that you have a blog will and what to do about it
5. Work on your general and living wills first.
   • More value to you and your family
   • A Blogger Will is a special case of your general will

Caveat blogger: I am not now nor have I ever been a lawyer.

Bonus Suggestions:

• Put off dying
  • Eat, Exercise, Sleep, Play, Socialize more/better
  • When will you die?
• Start a Religion
• Religions are the longest-lived human institutions. They are more likely to survive war, disasters, epidemics and climate change than corporations or governments.