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The New, New Thing: Layoff Web Sites

in Media on November 29, 2008 at 7:47 am PT

I don’t think this is quite what advocates of “creative destruction” have in mind when they talk about the upside of economic turmoil. But it’s worth noting anyway: The daily drumbeat of layoffs, shutterings and other grim economic news has inspired a boomlet in Web sites and services dedicated to tracking them.