Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Prostitution could spike during RNC
Of the 5,000 or so "erotic services" ads on the Twin Cities craigslist Web site, the word "Republican" appears twice. In an ad looking for event "hostesses" during next week's presidential nominating convention in St. Paul, and in another ad promising "your secret is safe w/me!" ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Jeremy Zawodny left Yahoo for Craigslist and, two weeks into the new gig, has a few comments on the commute, the hardware, the culture, the food and the work. Somewhat newsworthy in that no one that we know of from CL has talked much publicly from inside the ropes.
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
If you have been following the Jason Fortuny story, it's actually getting pretty interesting. In 2006 he re-published over 180 responses to a fake sex ad on Craigslist and was recently located and issued a summons. The NY Times did a piece about it recently.
"The victim argues Fortuny violated ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Svetlana Gladkova from Profy.com just published a nice, comprehensive article about the newly launched Craigslist competitor EcoFlip.org.
Full article
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
A Pacific Northwest man and a woman were arrested and jailed after their sexual encounter led someone to think a rape was in progress.
Authorities say a homeless woman seeking a place to pitch a tent contacted them after witnessing a man sexually assaulting a bound and naked woman.
The 47-year-old man ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
CL users weren't able to access parts of the website for several hours yesterday due to a rare outage.
More from CNET
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Another sore spot for users of Craigslist is the rogue community of flaggers. Although their intent is good, their execution is often inexcusable. Here's a typical, frustrated user.
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I posted a job ad on Craigslist.org yesterday that got quickly flagged and removed. You don't get any indication as to why and ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Many of us who use Craigslist have seen the dramatic rise in spam on Craigslist. Let's face it, CL is free, so every jerk under the sun is trying to post his spam there.
John Nagle, founder of SiteTruth, a site that tries to identify bogus businesses and their Web sites, ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
It must be unbearably difficult for families to wait until a spouse or relative can receive an organ transplant. It's not the operation, but actually locating a needed organ that is a match to the recipient, that's the difficult part.
Two couples from British Columbia are trying a new method involving Craigslist.
Lois ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
From out of nowhere, Craigslist has almost single-handily crippled the print newspaper classified ad business. From its humble beginnings in the mid-90's, Craigslist has seen a variety of competitors emerge and drop away.
Industry analysts who follow Web classifieds closely agree the space is in flux. Off-line powerhouse Wal-Mart has gotten in ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
We have all dealt with the constant bombardment of email spam. Buy insurance, sign-up for a new credit card, cheap airfare deals, find a hot chick, etc.... Heck, if my penis grew 2" every time I got one of those "enlargement" emails, it would be about 732 miles long by now.
Tracey ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
The Boston.com site did a nice write-up on Craig Newmark and Craigslist.
Writer, Scott Kirsner, begins by discussing Craig Newmark's diligence in monitoring the Craigslist site.
"He scrubs racist comments from its discussion boards and hounds New York City realtors who post apartments for rent that don't exist. And he's incredibly efficient at it: ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Craigslist has long had a self-policing mentality for its site. Many loyal readers scour the site and will "flag" posts that appear to be fraud or break CL's T&C's.
As many of us know it's not a perfect solutoin but it works pretty well.
"Our first line of defense against the bad ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
During the recent Authentication & Online Trust Alliance conference, held at the Seattle Westin, Craig Newmark was interviewed by David Daniels of JupiterResearch, and covered a wide variety of topics.
Seattle Times writer Brier Dudley recaps, "The gist of Newmark's advice was that people need to trust one another -- they'll ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Darian Heyman, who is the Executive Director of the Craigslist Foundation, recently posted about his excitement while attending a "Craigslist For-Nonprofits" session.
The organization has done wonderful work over the years. It spun off when Craigslist became a "for-profit entity" and the Craigslist Foundation (Helping People Help) emerged.
Sounds like a new ...
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