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 “I have taken over Alan’s legacy”, says a Reader’s Write to our story about Alan Carton (right) who ran Twitter page diditleak until he died in January at the age of 23.

But he had a lot of fun before he went to see what’s happening on the other side.

On January 5, @diditleak went dark, p2pnet posted, going on >>>

Alan was a Canadian from Edmonton, Alberta, and as Chris Weingarten points out in his Village Voice article >>>

For two years, the Twitter account @diditleak was the secret weapon of online listeners and music critics alike. In real time, the account, which ultimately garnered over 11,500 followers, announced whenever a digital copy of a particularly desirable record first hit the Internet. For that it became a beloved resource of torrent-hungry music fans and writers angling for first listens. Using email tips and message-board-scouring alchemy, @diditleak seemed to know leaks better than anybody on Earth.

The feed’s creator was Alan Carton, a then-21-year-old Vancouver film student who worked on the site in total anonymity. On January 5, @diditleak went dark. Its creator’s name is only being revealed now because on January 16th, after a long hospital stay, Alan Carton died. He was 23. In his final days, Carton worked on @diditleak from his hospital bed, posting tips about the new Yeasayer record at a time when doctors were saying he could lapse into a coma at any minute. His story–as told by his mother Jennifer to Voice–is unlikely, to say the least.

Or as joshuakatz in San Francisco puts it in his tweetmeme post, “Fantastic article about how one cancer stricken 23 yr. old helped upset the music biz status quo.“

Now diditleak is back —- or, rather, a facsimile is online, under a new name and new management.

“I have kept diditleak going on a new site, http://www.leaksallday.com“, says the comment post.

We can’t tell you if it’s good, bad or indifferent, who runs it, whether or not s/he / they knew Alan, or anything else.

But the first offering is below.
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UPDATE: I just heard from one of the people who’s trying to get diditleak up and running again.

“Basically I was a loyal follower of diditleak for about 2-3 years, since he was on blogspot”, s/he says, going on >>>

Sometime in January I noticed there wasn’t anymore activity on the website. Being a web designer/developer, I emailed Alan, letting him know who I was and asked him if he needed any assistance. A day or two later his mother emailed me informing me that he has just passed from Cancer.

I felt the need to keep his legacy on. I quickly designed and setup www.leaksallday.com.

I am doing all of the research myself at the moment, but I expect more tips to start coming in as the site grows in popularity.

diditleak.com was too big to just let die. And that was before I even knew his story. Once I learned of his heroic story, it was a done deal. leaksallday was born.

Stay tuned.

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