Brilliant example of a niche site - one for the bookmarks next time the dust bites someone back.
And something else for newspapers to worry about. Specialist sites - such as Craigslist - have already started eating into newspaper publishers' revenue by meeting the demand for online classified ads.
Births, deaths and marriages are bread and butter for most local papers, but a few enterprising bloggers could move further into that space too. Bring it on!
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