Legacy.com Guest Books and content screening cited in USAToday piece about the ugly side of free speech.
Amy Dickinson advises a reader to visit Legacy.com to learn about online memorials in her syndicated "Ask Amy" column.
The Saturday Evening Post features Legacy's "In Remembrance" site in an article on Memorial Day and how the way people remember those who died in battle is changing.
McClatchy-Tribune News story about how modern technology is helping address the ancient human desires to grieve and connect.
ESPN profiles a high school football coach who inspires his team by remembering fallen soldiers.
The Northwest Indiana Times examines how social networking sites and online guest books are changing the way society grieves.
The Northwest Indiana Times interviews the mother of a fallen soldier.
NPR excerpts Sen. Kennedy's Legacy.com Guest Book.
Media Post examines how the "Web's leading obituary site finds itself getting into social networking."
CNN discusses new Google Earth layer, Map the Fallen, which enables users to pinpoint where each service member died and connect to his or her hometown. For each person, the tool includes a detailed profile, many of which were created by Legacy.com.
USA TODAY front page story profiles Carla Sizer who visits her son’s Legacy.com Guest Book daily. Dane was killed in Iraq in 2007 and is included on Legacy.com’s In Remembrance site honoring U.S. service members who have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution examines the importance of online grieving, cites Legacy’s featured Guest Book for slain hiker Meredith Emerson. Also features Georgians whose Legacy Guest Books are among the most visited for 2008 and all time.
The San Francisco Chronicle has published Legacy.com's list of the most visited Guest Books of the year.
Women in the Virginia Memorial Quilt Project use Legacy.com to get in touch with the families of service members from Virginia who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Consumer electronics show "Into Tomorrow" highlights Legacy Memorial Websites as a way to honor deceased friends and loved ones.
The Oklahoman marks the 70th anniversary of the death of Popeye creator E. C. Segar and directs readers to Legacy.com's "Lasting Legacies" feature about the cartoonist.
The About.com animated TV blog points readers to Legacy.com to read the "Lasting Legacies" feature on cartoonist E. C. Segar.
The Work Buzz, a job blog, notes that 29 percent of respondents to a Legacy.com survey say they have missed a funeral, wake or memorial service because of work.
When schedules get in the way of attending a funeral, friends and family can visit Legacy.com to pay respects, writes a Global Traveler blogger.
Orange County Register columnist points out LegacyConnect as a resource for grieving people and interviews regular LegacyConnect contributor Florence Isaacs.
Two days after his death, Skip Caray received more than 1,000 messages and condolences in his Legacy.com Guest Book, reports USA TODAY.
Carole Tarrant says newspapers can't be online without reader comments, and it's the paper's job to make sure the conversation stays civilized. When her newspaper needed assistance with screening comments in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, they turned to Legacy.com.
A community finds comfort in a Legacy.com online memorial created to honor a police officer killed in an automobile accident.
After news and media sites, Legacy.com is No. 2 in Internet monitor Hitwise's rankings.
"No one likes to think about it, but death is inevitable. After it happens, you won’t have to care about paying the electricity bill anymore, but what’ll happen to your blog, e-mail, online profiles?" asks the social networking news site Mashables.com.
"When [employees] do get it, two to three days of paid bereavement leave is the norm for most U.S. businesses and there are no signs that will be changing any time soon. But Legacy.com offers its employees – both full- and part-time – a full week of paid leave in the event of the death of a relative."
Obituary writers are experimenting with new ways of presenting obits – through video diaries, audio slideshows and blogs, online journalism portal Poynter Online reports.
After the brutal rape and murder of Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Frances Lauterbach, people from around the country mourned her online, including on Legacy.com, the Jacksonville (N.C.) News reports.
Midland News Association, publisher of the Express & Star and Shropshire Star, joins more than 500 other newspapers that use Legacy.com's services.
The Montel show talks about how comforting the Legacy.com Guest Book has been to the father of a slain 11-year-old girl. After the show aired, entries to the Guest Book poured in from all over the country.
HBO's "REAL Sports with Bryant Gumbel" talks to retired baseball relief pitcher Jeff Reardon about how he and his family coped with the death of his 20-year-old son, including writing regularly in his Legacy.com Guest Book.
The Columbus Dispatch reports a Page One story about online memorials, prominently featuring Legacy.com.
A story about the death of U.S. Army Specialist Mathew Laforest published in New York’s Press-Republican draws extensively from entries to his Legacy.com Guest Book.
"Legacy.com, an online obituary service, set up a guest book for people to type in notes about the tragedy," the Seattle Times reports following the Virginia Tech shootings.
"Legacy, which gets more than six million visitors a month and one comment every five seconds, says it vets everything before it is posted," The New York Times reports.
"Online tributes are reshaping the way many people deal with death. Web eulogies, tributes, and memorials…" the Boston Globe reports.
Over Memorial Day weekend, Holly Fallon wrote a letter to her only child, Eric James Andrews: "It's been three months now, today…and I still feel numb…" the Southern California Press-Enterprise reports.
"Days after his wife's death from inflammatory breast cancer in 2004, Michael Bloomer set up a Web page memorial," The Washington Post reports. "An old co-worker from Florida signed Kim Bloomer's online guest book. So did a high school classmate in Michigan."
"Just as the Web has changed long-established rituals of romance and socializing, personal Web pages on social networking sites…are altering the rituals of mourning," The New York Times reports.
"When 18-year-old Amanda Bassler caught herself thinking of her friend Joshua Reif the other day, she posted a comment on his MySpace page: ‘Missin you buddy!!! LOVE YOU SOO MUCH!!’" the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.
