Meanwhile, the article mentions that Craig is posting on Twitter, and links to Twitter.com- would it kill them to link directly to the source of what they're talking about? I'd like to read his Twitter, and it would be nice if they'd help me out instead of making me search like crazy. Gah, NYTimes is so annoying sometimes.

What interests me is the graphic showing the coverage area -- there is still only one craigslist for all of Maine, and not much on that, frankly. Yet I keep seeing things here and there on the web talking about how classified ads are dying, and don't look for an apartment anywhere but on craigslist, etc. Hurry up, stupid revolution! What's taking you so long??

Whoa! that is not a small amount of money.
I just posted some jobs on Clist for my company, and I was thinking about the days when posting jobs was free or cheaper. It's funny how they charge different amounts depending on where you post. I was posting in CA and LA was the priciest board to get on.

I love craigslist. That is all.

Well, when I posted a job ad in my local newspaper recently, it cost $240. IT's still quite the deal.

Yeah, JanetLand, we're slow to catch up. I read both the NH Craigslist and the Maine one. NH is catching on a bit better, but for apartment searching, the newspaper is still much better (they'll also send a daily email of apartments within your search specs). There's little overlap between what's on CL and what's on the local paper so I have to check both. Ther'es just not a big enough user community for CL here yet.

Teeps - you can read his blog. Or his twitter.

Ha. First town they mention is my own. (And it's up and running, too.)

The local paper is furiously working to launch a jobs and local business portal of its own.

It's still all free in Pittsburgh and since there's no job market and not much of a real-estate market, it'll probably stay that way.

I love craigslist, too, even though the one here in Lawrence is small. I'm a little surprised to see that they're rich as Scientologists, but not too surprised.

I like craigslist a lot, and between Austin and San Antonio there's a pretty vibrant craigslist community, if you can call it that. We bought our lovely, sturdy, large, hand-crafted dining room table (with 6 chairs) for $75 bucks, and sell lots of stuff on their, too.

Classified ads is really one place where the internet can, hands-down, outperform print mediums. Print space is expensive, and web space is cheap.

Gah, replace "their" with "there".

It's been a really, really long week.

Agreed, muddgirl - plus, with print there's a lag time, with web it's lightning-fast.

I have similar things to say about Freecycle. I've been subscribing to my local one for about two weeks, and am absolutely amazed at what good stuff is changing hands and how quickly.

Why didn't we think of Craigslist?

I think Craigslist is a pretty interesting case study in value creation (and I mean strictly economic value). It's become almost a truism that Newmark et al are forgoing immeasurable value by staying private, growing judiciously and caring for its customer-base. But I think if they stay on this path, when it's all said and done, the Craiglist founders may have generated more cash wealth than most comparable tech/web entrepreneurs who took their company's public. And if not in absolute terms, than certainly in risk-adjusted terms.

Not that we have craigslist here, but we have given up advertising jobs in the newspapers here and rely totally on Web advertising on our own jobs site and on seek.com.au. Newspaper ads are way expensive, they only have a life of one day (maybe two for the Saturday paper) and only unemployed people read the job ads in papers, apparently.

I've been thinking about trying freecycle, but I'm afraid a lot of stuff I want might be, "free to haul away," and I drive a tiny, tiny car.

Not having a vehicle at all makes those "free to haul away" deals even worse. You're basically limited to anywhere within walking distance. But I can't complain- I've been wanting an exercise bike for awhile, and last week, someone down the street left one outside. It's very old, which is good, because if it didn't have the old-school exposed front wheel, I wouldn't have been able to roll it home.

Omigod, the blog says Snowman is dead. He was one of the cat modeling greats.
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Craigslist is pretty useful in Portland. I bought my house on Craigslist. I love that CL has no graphics, flash or java, so it loads fast. The mods are quick to respond to flagged posts. Not so fond of junky ads for non-local crap, or spammers who respond if you post.

One of the ways google got to be google is that they took ads, but clearly identified the ads and paid placement. Prior to that, altavista, for instance, took $ to place search rankings higher, which affected their credibility. Google was transparent and honest, and it's worked. Same deal with craigslist, long may they ... something.

My local paper has sucked for quite a while. They mostly provide a vehicle for finding out what's on sale at Macy's and what's at the movies. Lots of canned news, lots of filler, little good reporting. CL is blowing them out of the water. I wonder what will happen to actual journalism?

Love freecycle, and taxis are not too bad for getting stuff home.

OH NOES, ESSEXJAN CAT IS DEAD?

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