Metro Atlanta mourners connect online to remember grieve
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- Metro Atlanta mourners connect online to remember grieve
- No studio no theater: Just you and your home computer
- Celtic Tiger Devours Hopes of Young Workers
Metro Atlanta mourners connect online to remember grieve
Atlanta Journal Constitution USA -
com’s home page takes users to the 1-800-Flowers site while Legacy. com offers the opportunity to create Memorial Web sites complete with photos audio and video for $49 per year. “We’re the first to admit it’s grown far beyond our initial expectations” said Legacy chief operating officer Hayes Ferguson. “We are building a virtual community of very real people who no longer can talk over the fence or run into each other. ”That “talking” may be loudest in Georgia where 86 percent of all guest books published with an obituary received entries in 2008. That’s compared with 73 percent elsewhere. Are we more wired here? r simply more comfortable with death than say the average Yankee?“I’d say it’s that people in the South are storytellers” ventured Janice Hume an associate journalism professor at the University of Georgia and the author of the book “bituaries in American Culture.
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No studio no theater: Just you and your home computer
Kansas City Star M -
“The biggest screen they use regularly may be on their computer. Plus people increasingly are hooking their computers up to their TVs and home theaters.
Celtic Tiger Devours Hopes of Young Workers
Huffington Post NY -
100000 people took to the Dublin streets last week to protest the government’s handling of the recession. Earlier this month Youth Radio talked to Dublin youth about their prospects for employment and hopes for economic recovery after the crash of the “Celtic Tiger. ” Ireland’s Generation Y has grown up in a prosperous nation one that transformed itself from a largely agrarian society with a 20 percent unemployment rate just two decades ago to a technologically advanced magnet for transnational workers and companies. Home ownership shot up and the Irish standard of living improved dramatically according to businessman Cormac Lynch. Lynch left Ireland to get a business degree at Stanford University in the 1980s and watched the economy bloat. “The government decided to lower taxes and let the Irish population have that money themselves.