22 days ago
deusx : best of craigslist : "Dear Red States..." A Letter From The Blue! - "Dear Red States... We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us."
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5 month ago
nelson : Zawodny to Craigslist - Congratulations, Jeremy! Good luck with the sucky commute though
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15 month ago
nelson : Wanted: gullible lawyers - Amazing story of a scam; nice punchline at the end, too
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19 month ago
jimray : I HAVE WII, I WANT CAR - I'm sure you do, dude. I'm sure you do.
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20 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : 143 Reasons That I Will Be The Best Girlfriend You've Ever Had - 143 Reasons That I Will Be The Best Girlfriend You've Ever Had: that's a big list!
adamrg : 143 Reasons That I Will Be The Best Girlfriend You've Ever Had - Where have you been all my life?
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23 month ago
jimray : Craigsnumber - Phone number that forwards to your actual phone, expires after a set time, keeps you anonymous
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24 month ago
Andy Baio : Craigslist Meets the Capitalists - refreshing [via]
plasticbag : Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist goes to meet business types and weirds them out because he's not interested in profit maximisation - I think I love Jim Buckmaster. Craigslist may not represent a replicable model, but it's nice to have a counter example to the kind of advertising strip-mining that eviscerates sites and services because it can only think of eyeballs not communities...
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27 month ago
Andy Baio : The Secret Life of Jason Fortuny - constructing a psychological profile of the man behind the Craigslist sex baiting based on his online writings
jimray : The Secret Life of Jason Fortuny - Well, not-so-secret really. Interesting profile of the guy behind the Craigslist sex post prank
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27 month ago
Andy Baio : Sex baiting prank on Craigslist affects hundreds - griefer republishes personal ad responses publicly, ruining lives in the process
cameron : Waxy.org: Daily Log: Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds - Andy describes an identity baiting case that is potentially going to cause some huff.
jimray : Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds - Note to self: do not use work email address when responding to craigslist "casual encounters" posts. Another note to self: do not respond to craigslist "casual encouters" posts.
jkottke : Andy on some recent baiting of people looking for sex on Craigslist - Andy on some recent baiting of people looking for sex on Craigslist. "In a staggering move, he then published every single response, unedited and uncensored, with all photos and personal information to [the web]."
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34 month ago
kellan : Topix: The Architecture and Ambition of Craigslist - "Craig's lead-into-gold trick is that he gets his posters to accurately classify their spam." #
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34 month ago
Linkorama : Alt Weeklies, San Francisco, Curiosity, and Bullshit - And realize that the reason Craig is eating your lunch is not merely because his information is better, or because he cares about being online and you don't, but because he's given people a place to connect with each other, instead of just being preached
Andy Baio : Anil responds to SFBG editor's rant on Craig Newmark - the editorial compared Craig's List to Wal-Mart [via]
jkottke : Anil on the conservatism of liberalism - Anil on the conservatism of liberalism (by way of explaining why Craigslist is taking away everyone else's classifieds business). "A complete unwillingness to be critical, an almost astoundingly low set of criteria for acceptance -- these aren't the trait
jimray : Anil Dash: Alt Weeklies, San Francisco, Curiosity, and Bullshit - "...a business model predicated on nickel-and-diming for rent ads or charging brokers a premium price for ALL CAPS in a listing, combined with some edge-of-legality back pages full of ads for whores is certainly not contributing to a community."
Douglas Bowman : Alt Weeklies, San Francisco, Curiosity, and Bullshit - When I read the SF Bay Guardian rant that Anil linked in his counter-rant, I was left with a foul taste in my mouth. Anil's qualified and well-written response nails it better than many of us could have. The reason Anil recommended management from his old
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35 month ago
Linkorama : Nobody here but us chickens - A little compare and contrast about the NYC transit strike gets us quickly to the heart of a serious problem that faces newspaper.coms.
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36 month ago
jimray : Craig$list.com - "Bay Area papers alone forfeit at least $50 million annually to Craigslist, losses that contribute to layoffs of dozens of reporters. As fearful publishers cut newsroom jobs, inferior news coverage is the likely outcome." Boy, newspapers are PISSED and no
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37 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Meet the IT Gigolo - Meet the IT Gigolo: An orgasm for every two hours of service is pretty fair.
deusx : Meet the IT Gigolo - 'I placed an ad on Craigslist that read, "WILL FIX COMPUTERS FOR SEXUAL FAVORS," and I've had an overwhelming number of responses.'
jimray : Meet the IT Gigolo - "One girl didn't even wait for me to finish the virus scan—she just grabbed me and gave me a blow job." This might be the most awkward use of the hardware tag ever.
jkottke : Man trades computer tech support (spyware and virus removal mostly) for sexual favors from damsels in distress - Man trades computer tech support (spyware & virus removal mostly) for sexual favors from damsels in distress (via ads on craigslist, of course). One wonders if he's receiving sexually-transmitted viruses in exchange for his computer virus removal serv
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37 month ago
Linkorama : Craig to invest in Wikipedia? - Could be. If I were to make a significant contribution to Wikipedia, for example, given that it is a journalism effort, ultimately, would that be considered an investment?
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37 month ago
Linkorama : The Craig - "I'm going to define a new standard measure of web-application effort called the craig. One craig is the level of effort required to produce and maintain a truly robust and scalable consumer facing web application such as Craigstlist."
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cameron : The Blonde at the Laundromat - Laundrogami
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52 month ago
kellan : "i, for one, welcome our new corporate masters" - espe on the ebay/craigslist acquisition thingy #
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