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Death notices, the death knell of newspapers; or obits go Craigslist

Tributes.com is a new site for obituaries, and aims to eat another lunch previously enjoyed by newspapers. As classifieds were devoured by Craiglist and others, Monster.com's founder figures that the obit pages are ripe for Web 2.0 exploitation.

Will obituary pages become death sites a second time over, relics of a past age, tombstones for older tombstones?

Time to reread John Crowley's "Snow."

(thanks to Steve B)

July 02, 2008 at 19:57 in Haunted Spaces: Cyberspace Gothic | Permalink

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Thanks, but Jeff is a little late to the party on this deal. You may also want to check out National Hall of Records (www.nhor.org) as they have been doing what Taylor is describing since October by working directly with their funeral home and cemetery members for their content as well as the SSA database. Great content

Posted by: stephen Disler | July 03, 2008 at 09:15

Tributes.com is pretty tacky. Animated banner on the top? First ad I saw was about long lines in airports and pictured feet walking around... "walking on my grave" came to mind.

Posted by: Andy Havens | July 03, 2008 at 14:40

Good tip, stephen Disler; thank you.

Ha, Andy! Nothing like the uncanniness of tacky, eh?

Posted by: Bryan Alexander | July 04, 2008 at 10:24

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