A year ago this week my friend Hollis Hawthorne fell into a coma as a result of a motorcycle accident she suffered in India. Her progress has been slow but steady and both her friends and her family have been blogging about it and documenting every milestone. For instance, recently her friends blogged as of the beginning of this year, she's been singing and humming to songs she listens to on her iPod.In

I first met Martin Bosworth (aka @martinboz) a year ago this month at the L.A. Tweetup, a face-to-face social networking meetup for Los Angelenos. So in a weird way it seems fitting that I learned of his recent death on Twitter.Bosworth was a managing editor at the consumer advocacy site ConsumerAffairs.com. He also posted to his personal blog Boztopia. In the short time that I knew him, I found him