We just updated our ever-expanding list of current and former
Microsoft employees who blog. We are now up to more than 200 Microsoft
blogs on our roster.
Microsoft's bloggers are on the move. Tons of Microsoft employee
bloggers have been reopening their blogs over on the .NET Weblogs. The problem is that
that homepage now is flying by very fast. Whew. Tons of interesting
info. Do you like Microsoft bloggers over there mixed in with
community? They used to be over on GotDotNet.
I don't know if I like this new approach, but I'm watching and
learning.
Feel free to give frank feedback about this new approach. I'll pass
it along.
I wish we could have tons of decentralized communities and not try
to do everyone in one centralized place. Why should an employee who
wants to blog about the XBOX, for instance, be stuck into .NET
Weblogs?
Microsoft still doesn't have a formal policy or a centralized
recommendation. It's just that a bunch of employees got someone to
open blogs up on GotDotNet and they outgrew that home. I imagine that
the .NET Weblogs will be quickly outgrown too.
Right now we're early on in the process of having employees weblog.
Imagine what'll happen if the numbers grow from a few hundred to a few
thousand? We need to build better systems now to prepare for the
growth.
Any ideas?
Microsoft bl0ggers come to MSDN
Microsoft bl0ggers come to MSDN01/09/2004 10:11 PM Microsoft is adding Web logs published by its employees to its
Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), the company's main site for
software developers.
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Microsoft claims 4.5 million bl0ggers
Microsoft claims 4.5 million bl0ggers04/08/2005 08:56 AM The company said in a statement that since it was introduced in test
form Dec. 1, 4.5 million blogs have been set up. However, fewer than
4% (about 170,000) are updated daily, according to the Seattle Times.
New to the official release of MSN Spaces is advertising, with Volvo
as the first customer -- putting its banner ads on Spaces and also
sponsoring a "best of" page, inviting people to write about
experiences with their automobiles. MSN Spaces staff will scour other
blogs for compatible posts and put them on the Volvo site, according
to Microsoft (MSFT: news, chart, profile) .
The company also released a new version of its MSN Messenger software
for instant, voice, and video messaging. It too will have advertising,
starting with Coca Cola Co.'s (KO: news, chart, profile) Sprite
offering downloads of "theme packs," which include animations and
backgrounds and audio clips. American Greetings Corp. (AM: news,
chart, profile) also plans to sell icons for personalizing messages.
"It's just a way for people to express themselves," MSN corporate vice
president Blake Irving told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "It's
advertising but it doesn't feel that way."
MSN has also added a search button into the Messenger window to boost
use of MSN Search.
Micro Persuasion: Microsoft Recruiting Paid Bloggers
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Microsoft Bloggers Face Search Spam Pinch
Microsoft Bloggers Face Search Spam Pinch12/22/2004 01:35 AM The company takes steps as some of its 1,200 bloggers are among those
hit with a rise in spam posted as comments. MSDN bloggers complain
they're now disabling comments in response to the spam deluge.
Tsunami update: Microsoft responds, bl0ggers organize, video torrents
Tsunami update: Microsoft responds, bl0ggers organize, video torrents12/30/2004 04:48 PM Xeni Jardin:
A quick roundup of items related to the tsunami disaster. Image:
mannequin in pile of wreckage in Thailand, shot by blogger and NBC
correspondent Kevin Sites who is on assignment in Asia covering the
story. (Link)
*Following up on a previous BoingBoing post, an anonymous Microsoft
employee says:
Responding to this: "Reader J. Hahn says, "I am particularly impressed
with Amazon.com's Red Cross donation counter that proves Americans are
not 'stingy.' Also, as a Mac user, I was proud to go to the apple.com
site and see not one product ad on their front page - just links to
aid and donation sites, and Microsoft had not one mention of the
disaster."
Most of Microsoft's efforts regarding Tsunami relief is focused
internally. MS offers a dollar for dollar charitable donation match to
all FTE, and is doing everything it can to expidite the process of
trying to get the money to where it will do the most good.
* Tsunami Outreach: Bloggers Without Borders' first international
project launched last night. Link
(Thanks, Sean)
"Hello Xeni, We thought you might be interested in passing
on the news of one person's great efforts for tsunami relief. We
wanted to donate to a tsunami relief effort with our funds in a PayPal
account but had difficulty finding an agency that took PayPal.
Eventually we found Kevin McDonald's site where he is
doing a fantastic job of collecting PayPal contributions and passing
them on to AmeriCares
(AmeriCares disaster relief has a 4-star rating from Charity
Navigator.) Kevin has even persuaded AmeriCare's webmaster to see
about accepting PayPal transfers direct in the near future."
Family members of a close personal friend of mine are still missing in
Thailand. Her father and brother have flown there to try and find
them, as this Globe and
Mail article details, but the help of the blog community would
also be greatly appreciated. I've posted a request for help on my
blog at Mi
ssing in Khao Lak, Thailand. Hopefully someone might have some
information for a Canadian family that's been living on the edge of
grief for five days now.
Related: see this "missing persons" wiki page (Link
), and a blog devoted to linking missing persons with their loved
ones: Link. And the
Red Cross has launched a "Family Links" web page where family members
can search for missing relatives’ names: Link. "The information is
not verified or tracked by either the ICRC or the American Red Cross
but is offered by the ICRC as a stand-alone internet tool for
inquirers to use on their own."
* Reader Roberto says, "Every year at this time, I empty my jar full
of loose change. But this year I discovered I could donate to the Red
Cross (among other charities including UNICEF) from a Coinstar machine
at my drugstore. And big kid that I am, I had fun playing with the
machine." Link.
I stumbled upon Austin's Blog who's
done a fine job of gathering more videos. So earthlink homepage
servers don't get creamed, I've created this torrent gathering 5 of
the videos from his blog that weren't already covered in the previous
torrent which is still available here. Remember,
the more people click those torrent links, the easier and faster it is
for everybody else to download them too. And try to keep the torrent
opened for as long as possible even after you're done downloading. Big
Kudos to prodigem's very
easy-to-use torrent service. Link
I've just set up a tsunami news digest
using the news aggregator Kinja.com. The page contains latest news
feeds and first-person blogs related to the tsunami disaster from
around the globe. I'd like to see others add their own tsunami-related
feeds to the site. If you have a news feed or blog that's focusing on
the tsunami, or are reading one that you'd like to add to the digest,
please visit the
website and log on with the following info: login: tsunami-info /
password: southasia. Once you've logged in, you can add a news source
to the digest by pasting it into the "Add a Favorite" form field in
the right column. Or, you can follow this shortcut.
* Among the many first-person accounts appearing on blogs: Sanjiva is
an IBM employee from Sri Lanka, who is trying to build information
systems to aid in locating missing persons, and help with medical
resource logistics. Link.
* Jesse Krembs, President of The Hacker Foundation, tells BoingBoing:
Some of the folks here at the hacker foundation are assembling some
code to build a big PHP/MYSQL database for locating survivors and
doing tracing. It's not up yet but it will be soon. SurvivorLocationAssis
tance.org & suvivors.hackerfoundation.
org will be the address. You can see a preview as we build it here. It's
still very rough but functional even at very low
bandwidth."
Note to Self: Don't Read Scoble Late at Night or Microsoft
Bloggers Now Added and a Rant
A wee bit tired this morning. I made a quick round of my
normal stops in the blogosphere last night and I happened by the Scobleiz
er. Now I've met Robert in the real world and I always get
something out of reading his stuff -- but it usually doesn't cost me
sleep. You see what happened is Robert pointed me off to Microsof
t Watch and a list of Mi
crosoft bloggers with weblogs. So I thought "Wouldn't it be
nice if they were all indexed". And there I was making sure they
got stuffed into the system. Here's what I found:
Probably more than 50% of them were already in our database.
Go figure. I guess that either a) people are adding themselves
or b) the RSS auto discovery routines I wrote work better than I
initially thought ;-)
Microsoft bloggers use a plethora of different tools. I do
think, however, that the dominant one is Radio. Blogger, Movable
Type and other systems are also represented
Not all Microsoft bloggers have RSS feeds
Topics span work and personal
Devhawk.net did a really
smart thing with Feedster -- he added it to has blog's UI essentially
as a "virtual table of contents". Good idea. I think I
need to offer some viewing improvements if people are going to do
this.
Someone needs to teach the "gotdotnet" folks what RSS
is. Also I couldn't believe their HTML source when I was poking
around. So get ready for a vent.
<RANT CLASS=NASTY BILE=HIGH
FRUSTATION=SEVERE>Go look here and look at the
__VIEWSTATE input element. To me that's just plain lame.
Use a session, send a cookie and use your horsepower for this, not my
bandwidth with every page view. And if you really want to barf
then click around a bit and go here.
They seem to be encoding the entire viewing history in a really nasty
way and shipping it back to you every single time. It just gets
bigger. After navigating thru like 3 pages I had 6,554 bytes
sent down the wire that did nothing for me. Thanks for
nothing.</RANT>
I guess its not all that bad actually but it just seems damn
silly. I hope that's not a dot net feature but I'm afraid that
it is. Sigh.
Boing Boing: Tsunami update: Microsoft responds, bl0ggers organize, video torrents
A new breed of political observers will be offering volumes of
pointed commentary at this year's political conventions.
But most of these bloggers (short for Web loggers) don't fit the
profile of a traditional journalist on the campaign trail.
[...] For the first time, the Democratic National Convention and
the Republican National Convention will credential a small number of
bloggers to cover their nominating processes. Blogging was in its
infancy during the 2000 campaign.
Bloggers vs. Journalists is Over02/01/2005 08:39 PM "I have been an observer and critic of the American press for 19
years. In that stretch there has never been a time so unsettled.
More is up for grabs than has ever been up for grabs since I started
my watch."
Bloggers and Blogs: Welcome!
Bloggers and Blogs: Welcome!03/13/2003 04:49 PM take this survey on why you blog .. an interesting blogging survey ..
online questionnaire .. survey of bloggers .. conducting a poll ..
Lend a hand
Bloggers vs. Journalism02/01/2005 09:48 PM Mieto Marinadi talks about how a column by Matt
i Wuori in Iltalehti is asking if blogs could be journalism and
whether they will overrun the traditional media. I think the fact
that the question is being asked now shows clearly how much Finland is
not a front-runner in the information society game. In fact,
this question is not even asked yet by journalists, but a lawyer.
But in order to overrun media, there has to be first a Finnish blog
that has something to say in a way that is interesting and new. I
much enjoy the writings of Sedis, for example, and I am
expecting much from Haltia (and some other political
bloggers), now that the Helsinki City Council is starting its work.
The new Finland for Thought (in
English) keeps also asking important questions, and Kari
Haakana is probably the foremost journalistic blogger in Finland.
At the moment, Sami
Köykkä of Pinseri and Alex Nieminen of sukellus.fi are
arguably the most influential bloggers in Finland[1].
But this is not enough. I don't know whether it's even a good
start. Most of the "internet discussion" in Finland is done
in the scary, yet boring discussion boards of magazines, such as
Iltalehti, Iltasanomat, Vauva-lehti, etc, and it is pretty much
failing to impact anything. There is little danger to any sort of
professional journalism from these discussion boards, who mostly just
consist of rehashing the same arguments all over again. The USENET has been
in existence for twenty years, and every time I go there, I see the
same discussions but with different people. Or sometimes with the
same people. It makes you wonder whether these discussion boards ever
contributed something to anything, other than in the sense of community creation.
To me, blogs are different from the discussion boards because they
are individualistic. A news group is usually referred to by its name,
say "the people in sfnet.keskustelu.ihmissuhteet say
that...". Similarly in a bulletin board: "Hey, I found this
from Vauva-lehti..." On the discussion board, you lose yourself
and become a part of a bigger crowd, all shouting at the same time.
But a blog is attached to a real person (except for some weir
dos who can't seem to be able to decide whether they exist or
not). Therefore, whatever a blog says carries more gravity than a
random rambling on a news board. It is essentially your own
personal publication, and the comments are only a side story -
much like "from the readers" -sections on newspapers.
Therefore, bloggers are not a community, any more than newspapers are.
Some bloggers form communities, yes, but blogs are far too good a
ground for egocentrism for communities to
become prevalent.
The reason that I find blogs interesting is that they might
be the avenue to a real way for individuals (particularly
non-journalists and non-politicians) to influence local and national
decision-making; the real "information society" that
the
Thanks to
Jin Ho, Heewon, Goo
Dong-Eon, Xenix, Qho, Young Wook, and BK for a very interesting dinner
discussion and explaining the Korean blogging scene to me.
Korea is reported by the OECD to have the highest high-speed
Internet penetration of any nation. Korea has an extremely vibrant
gaming, blogging, mobile phone and youth culture scene and I was eager
to find out more about what was going on. I scribbled a bunch of notes
over coffee during the day and over dinner. Please excuse any errors
since I have not been able to fact check everything. If you could
point them out and let me update them, I would appreciate it.
According to articles in the press, there are 5-6 million blogs. These
are not to be confused with hompy. Hompy (a derivative of home page)
are personal home pages with photo albums, guest books, avatars,
background skins, and background music. There are approximately 10
million hompy pages. In a city with a population of 10 million and a
country with a population of 45 million, that's quite impressive.
Companies seem to be making money selling background music and items
for hompy pages. Most of the posts are focused on photos and one line
comments on pages of friends. They are generally closed communities
and are focused more on real-time presence-like communication rather
than diary or dialog.
Cyworld, which sounded like the leader for hompys has a feature
they call "scratch scrap". This allows you to
copy/paste content from other web pages easily to your hompy. On of
the problems that I see with this is that this simple built-in feature
does not provide a link back to the original source. It is rumored
engineers who designed this left and joined Naver, one of the leading
blog companies and created a similar feature for them. Generally
speaking, it sounded like people don't link very much. They are still
mostly plain html and not css + xhtml. There seemed to be some
trackback implementation, but it is not yet as widely used as in the
US or Japan. As far as I could tell, none of the blog systems used any
of the standard APIs, and some had RSS feeds. Blogs and hompys don't
seem to be pinging any pinger sites, which makes them nearly invisible
to the outside world. In addition, many sites block search engine bots
from crawling hompys and blogs.
It appears that one of the biggest problems is that there are
several 800 pound gorilla type portals that remind me of AOL during
it's powerful years. They try to create walled gardens of users. With
millions of bloggers and hompy users in each community, they are
focused more on integrating inside of their portals than open
standards or linking across portals. There are some independent blog
services and aggregators, but they still seem to be focused on
community and somewhat inward facing networks. A not-so-visibile
majority of blogs in Japan and the US are also this way, but the
public facing citizen journalist or pundit-style blogs seem to be very
sparse in Korea.
One of the reasons might be due to the success of OhmyNews. I
visited OhmyNews as well, and
they are truly an online newspaper powerhouse. You can read about them
in detail in Dan Gillmor's We
the Media, but they are a edited news website with droves of
citizen journalists who submit articles. They have courses in writing
for the citizen journalists, tip jars that people can pay them
through, editors to help with the important stories, lots of influence
and visibility and offline community activities. I can imagine that
someone who had something political or pundit-like to say might easily
choose to write for OhmyNews than to start a blog. This doesn't
describe everything, but I'm sure that OhmyNews has attracted a fair
number of the potential media blogger types.
I still have a lot to learn but the incredible difference in the
blogging scene and the apparent happiness with what the people had
considering the widespread adoption made me wonder if the Korean blogs
would ever look like American or Japanese blogs. (Many aspects of the
Japanese blogging scene seem to be following in the footsteps of the
US blogging scene, albeit with some differences.)
Update:
4- jaz @ June 2, 2005
10:43 AM
hey joi. the function is called "scrap," not "scratch"
what it allows you to do is to display a particular post from
someone's mini-hompy (cyworld) - if the permission setting of that
post is set to "allow scrap" - not from just any website. there's a
watermark-like feature that goes with it, which displays the original
author's name and the link back to the origianl
mini-hompy.
Sorry about the error. I was told however,
that most bloggers and hompyiers didn't cite or link. Someone said
that the big portals encouraged because it allowed all of the content
to be searched inside the portal, rather than offsite. Does anyone
have any more information on this?
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Calling all bl0ggers
Calling all bl0ggers03/13/2003 10:25 AM Check it out: My thesis is an attempt to fill in the void in academic
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Thank you fellow PHP bl0ggers!
Thank you fellow PHP bl0ggers!10/28/2003 11:07 PM I can't believe that it has been two months since I wrote my
"farewall" message. I have had a very nice response to it, especially
from my fellow PHP bloggers. I would like to use this opportunity to
thank them for their support. It helped me a lot.
Drupal is a very powerful Open Source
Content Management System (CMS) which can be configured for many
purposes, ranging as a collobrative tool to simple blogging.
The purpose of 'Drupal for bloggers' is develop a customized version
of Drupal which has features that typical movabletype (MT) bloggers are
used to. This is based on Drupal 4.4.1 so it is pretty stable but it
is not complete. The goal is to develop it to a stage where the
default installation is a blogsite, with all the neccessary modules
and hacks to make it user friendly (good enough to replace
movabletype) at the sametime not touching any core drupal system so
you can still use all the wonderful drupal plugins.
You can
take a try out the system before you use by clicking here.
Qualified Bloggers
Qualified Bloggers06/05/2005 11:27 PM The issue of blogging as journalism is being attacked on all sides
this morning. First, a Pew/BuzzMetrics study says blogs aren't that
influential. Mitch Ratcliffe subsequently points out the flaw in the
study itself, paying attention to word count...
It's hard for me to have friends who have blogs. Eventually the
flamers go after them, and when that happens, either by their choice
or mine, we end up not being friends. It's really bad for me, because
as my fame grows, more people who know me outside of blogging also
know me as a blogger.
The nasty folk go after my friends, or people I work with.
Sometimes the friends don't even know they're being asked to do
something that's going to hurt me. Anyway, all this is very
complicated, but since I usually try to share my epiphanies about
blogging, I thought I should share this one too. Basically, I think
what it says is that friendships that evolve on the Web aren't very
strong relationships, and it's easy to separate friends, if that's
your goal.
Maybe we're entering a new era, maybe a new bubble has burst.
Perhaps if Bill Gates gets his blog going then I won't be the fattest
target around, maybe things will return to some kind of normalcy.
Then it struck me, isn't this like the Michael Moore situation.
The war is bad, Bush is a bad president, probably the worst of our
lives. I've heard about the seven minutes of video of Bush paralyzed
after the second plane hit the WTC on 9/11. Sounds powerful. Even
right-wingers have to admit that a President should be someone who's
mobilized by a crisis, not frozen. Who needs the rest of it. So
often people overstate their case. That's Moore's mistake. That's a
lot of people's mistake. When you overstate, you lose people with
minds. One of the greatest things about my talk about Moore yesterday
is that I heard from right-wingers with minds. What a relief to find
out they're not all like Limbaugh or O'Reilly. Seriously.
So Jeneane Sessum says I'm psychotic. You don't say things like
that about psychotic people in public, if you have a human heart. It
would be cruel. So unless she's really a very bad person, she knows
I'm not actually psychotic (of course I'm not, I function relatively
well, I'm not without struggles, pretty normal stuff, and I have spent
many years in all kinds of therapy, so advising me to get therapy is
silly, I already do it). Sessum overstates her case. If she were
trying to be honest, she'd say "I don't like Dave and I want to hurt
him," and then talk about why she dislikes someone she's never met
who's never done anything to hurt her. See, if we're rational about
this, it very quickly becomes about the attacker, but if we buy into
Moore-like or Limbaugh-like hysteria, the pseudo-fights can last
indefinitely.
I had very high hopes for the blogosphere. Go back to one of
the first pieces I wrote about it in 1995, Bill
ions of Websites. It's almost ridiculously optimistic. "Every new
website begets more websites. If I have one, I want my friend to have
one, so I can point to it. And so they can point to my site. Someday
I'll be able to walk a network of friendships, automatically knowing
that each of us has mutual friends. It'll be cool." It happened. For a
while.
Now, maybe getting to the point where I disclaim friendship in
this space, maybe that will open the door for a new kind of
friendship. One that can sustain the attacks. I don't know, it
sometimes works that way. When you finally let go, really let go,
sometimes the parachute opens. Maybe that's what will happen.
Bloggers have rights too03/24/2005 07:54 AM Rep. John Conyers says Web loggers deserve the same legal protections
as those accorded to traditional print and broadcast journalists.
What do bl0ggers owe their sources?12/29/2004 01:46 PM
Roland Piquepaille, author of the excellent Technology Trends blog
and frequent contributor to Slashdot, is accused of using
plagirism, Slashdot and his own blog to pump up his
Blogads revenue. Long quotes and
summarization of sources are staples of the blogging culture. When
revenue is involved, some infer that the blogger owes more than just
credit to their sources. [via Eyebeam
Reblog].
Bloggers without borders
Bloggers without borders06/17/2005 04:51 PM In response to China and Iran's censorship of bloggers, have done
a quick logo for Bloggers Without Borders to post...
Bloggers and Big Media08/05/2004 07:17 PM Mark Glaser reports at
Online Journalism Review that big media companies are "starting to
work with -- instead of against -- the blogosphere." About time.
[pdf] list of bl0ggers
[pdf] list of bl0ggers05/24/2004 09:12 AM BuzzMachine has a list of bloggers blogging the conference. Also try
Bloglines....
who are the bl0ggers in your neighborhood?
who are the bl0ggers in your neighborhood?03/13/2003 10:15 AM In your neighborhood... in your neigh-bor-hoooood... I'm only posting
this cos I found it to be pretty darned cool, and...
Job openings for bl0ggers?
Job openings for bl0ggers?02/10/2004 02:56 AM I just ran across The Weekly Read, a nice new weblog just launched by
Seed Venture Capital Partners. It is like a business person's version
of Mike Masnick's Techdirt, pointing to what they see as the
interesting hi-tech and business stories of the week. While I don't
think that we are going to see a resurgence of the days of Content is
King, I'm wondering if as businesses weblogs like these become more
ubiquitous, bloggers will be able to find jobs putting them out. I
hope so. There are a lot of good writers out there who could use a
real income.... Grok Description matches for Microsoft Bloggers: Who Can Keep Up? GrokA matches for Microsoft Bloggers: Who Can Keep Up?
Fuji FinePix S7000 Review, Now Twice As Megapixelly
Fuji FinePix S7000 Review, Now Twice As Megapixelly04/13/2004 02:11 PM JOEL JOHNSON -- Photography Blog has a not-too-shallow, not-too-deep
review of the Fuji FinePix S7000 Zoom, an update to the FinePix S602
Pro Zoom. The body has had little change, but inside is a new
6-megapixel "4th Generation Super CCD HR sensor." I don't want to
spoil the review, but...
Product Review: Fujitsu LifeBook S7000 Series (NewsFactor)
Product Review: Fujitsu LifeBook S7000 Series (NewsFactor)05/03/2004 04:43 PM NewsFactor - Fujitsu's new LifeBook S7000 notebook computer features
stylish good looks, reduced weight and respectable battery life. Its
design gives users numerous options to match the notebook's
configuration to specific application requirements.
read the article carefully dumbass..it mentions the price in Rs..and it says its the STREET PRICE!!
In The Broadband Battle Between Speed And Price, Customers Choose Price
In The Broadband Battle Between Speed And Price, Customers Choose Price12/09/2003 03:39 PM Back in October we noted that DSL and cable providers were trying to
differe
ntiate themselves from each other. The DSL providers were
focusing on being the low cost provider, while the cable guys wanted
to be the high speed providers. At the time, we pointed out that this
was likely to backfire on the cable companies. People like the speed
of broadband, but for most applications there's a "good enough" speed
- and many people want it more for the always on connection than the
speed itself. It's looking like we were right. The latest study
shows that, despite cable's commanding lead in the US, many
more people are signing up for DSL these days because of the lower
price. It's the basic "good enough" argument. What DSL offers is
good enough for what most people want to do with their connections
now. Also, the speed difference is minimal right now. You don't get
that much faster speeds with cable, and there's not much you can
currently do with that extra bandwidth. It used to be that people
would sign up so they could download songs, but the music industry is
cracking down on that enough that it's become less of a draw for many
subscribers as well.
How not to sell your car on craigslist
How not to sell your car on craigslist02/14/2004 10:31 PM As noted before I've been hunting for a vehicle on craigslist for a
while now. In the course of doing so, I've read a lot of car ads on
craigslist. I must say, the quality of these ads is all over the map.
It's clear to me that some folks actually want to sell their vehicle
while others, for reasons that escape me, seem intent on not ever
selling a thing. In order to help that second group, I've assembled...
craigslist postings
craigslist postings12/30/2003 12:07 AM Most of you have probably heard of craigslist, the San Francisco
community web-board. While living in SF, I used craigslist for job
search, car search, scalped tickets to the Bridge School Benefit ...
all sorts of stuff. Matt Croydon gives us what he thinks is the best
craigslist posting ever: toshiba 2805 computer laptop for sale: The
keys have all been torn out. The monitor has been shattered after
experiencing my fists and a several foot stomps; The laptop upon
impact, after being thrown to the ground, permanently ejected the
dvd/cd player . The dvd/cd player also disassmbled after the...
CraigsList and eBay
CraigsList and eBay08/13/2004 04:21 PM eBay's bought 25% of CraigsList.org. Craig blogs about it here, and
set up a forum to talk about it here. I love CraigsList both as a
service that I use and as an example of what's so damn right with the
Web. And I have complete faith in Craig Newmark as someone who has put
years of labor on the line to build a place that benefits the
community. I have slightly mixed feelings about eBay. It, too, is a
service I use all the time, and they've innovated in some really
useful ways, especially with regard to reputation systems....
Free community Web site Craigslist has cost San Francisco Bay Area
newspapers up to $65 million in employment advertising revenue,
according to a report released Monday.
Craigslist, which generates more than 1 billion page-views each
month, also has cost the newspapers millions more in merchandise and
real estate advertising, and has damaged other traditional classified
advertising businesses, according to a report published by Classified
Intelligence.
Craigslist Rocks!
Craigslist Rocks!01/22/2004 02:41 AM The other day when I wrote about Craigslist RSS feeds missing prices,
Eric Scheide responded. He's the CTO at Craigslist. We exchanged a bit
of e-mail after that and he said he's look into getting prices into
the RSS feeds. Well, great news... They're fixed! Thanks so much to
Eric and the folks at Craigslist. Their RSS feeds just got a whole lot
more useful. Craigslist has always impressed me, but now it impresses
the hell out of me. :-)...
Craigslist to Charge for N.Y., L.A. Ads (AP)08/02/2004 01:43 PM AP - Popular community Web site craigslist has begun to charge a
$25 fee to post employment advertisements on its New York and Los
Angeles sites to cover the costs of its planned expansion.
craigbl0g: eBay and craigslist
craigbl0g: eBay and craigslist08/13/2004 02:18 PM Craig shares his account of this about it on his blog .. on the eBay
stake .. Craig's own post .. craigblog .. details ..
posting
Google Goes Looking for Temp Help on CraigsList03/14/2005 05:19 PM "Participants in web evaluation projects must have a high speed
internet connection. All work will be performed in the U.S. or Canada,
and participants must be able to demonstrate legal eligibility to
work."
Craigslist RSS Search Script01/17/2004 11:07 PM I've been idly looking at a few used vehicle models for the purpose of
towing a glider (and glider trailer, obviously). Recently I've been
checking out Toyota 4runners and Jeep Cherokees. A few weeks ago it
was Nissan Pathfinders. Trying to gauge availability and pricing is a
tricky business and one that I really didn't want to spent a lot of
time on. Since the used car ads on craigslist are quite active, I
figured that was a good place...
Hey! You Got Your Google Maps in My Craigslist!04/09/2005 08:50 PM How cool is THIS? Some very clever person has just done a mashup of
Google Maps and Craigslist rental listings. You can check it out at
http://www.paulrademacher.com/housing/ . You can...
I blogged earlier about the sale of 25%
of the stock of Craigslist to eBay. Out of context, some people might
not understand why this requires explaining or someone with a casual
understanding might think Craig sold out. Here's some more context.
(And no, Craig has not "sold out".)
Craig is a very unique individual and this interview and his site are a testament to
that. In March, on the way to SXSW, I was with a group which had an
airline nightmare at SFO. Craig negotiated with the extremely
unhelpful Mesa Airlines for the whole group of us and was amazingly
effective. I was moved by how he insisted that we were a group and was
not willing to settle for anything that left anyone
behind.
Cory Doctorow @ Boing
Boing
Craig of Craigslist interview
Wired Magazine ran an interview this month with Craig Newmark, the
founder of Craigslist and an all-round mensch:
Google's touchy-feely corporate mantra is "Don't be evil."
What's yours?
Give people a break.
A break from what?
A break from how difficult our lives are. It's like, if you're
walking out of your apartment building and somebody is coming the
other way with an armful of groceries, you hold the door. It feels
good - it's the neighborly thing to do. And our species survives by
cooperating.
What poses the major threat to that survival?
Kleptocrats and sociopathic organizations that have the almighty
dollar as their only goal.
In 1995, he was sending his
friends in San Francisco e-mail messages with lists of local events.
With their encouragement, this became Craig's List, which has now
expanded to Boston, Seattle, New York and 19 other regions. Nine years
later, Craig's List now gets 500 million page views and 4 million
unique visitors every month. The staff numbers 14, and the site runs
on about 30 Linux boxes. Craig says his success is based on "a culture
of trust." When I asked about his business model, he just laughed.
A self-described nerd, Craig has become somewhat of an
international celebrity. He has been asked by San Francisco
mayor-elect Gavin Newsom to join the mayor's transition team. "In San
Francisco City, people have given up because they seem to feel that
their leadership has told them that it doesn't matter if they're doing
a good job. It doesn't matter that much if they get things done."
Craig's mission -- should he decide to accept it -- is to recommend
how the use of computer systems and the Internet can better serve the
public. "So far, it looks pretty good," he says.
And coming soon to a theatre near you -- no kidding -- "24 Hours on
Craig's List." That's right -- the movie! Look for it to premiere at
South by Southwest or the San Francisco International Film Festival.
[IT
Conversations]
OK I got just one question: "It's been over six months
since the Tribe appeared - aiming right
at Craigslist and their Listings service. So how long will it be till
Craigslist support FOAF and opens up to the world?"
Online auctioneer eBay Inc. said Friday that it purchased a 25
percent pre-existing stake in San Jose, Calif.-based online
marketplace craigslist.
With sites in 45 cities around the world, craigslist is an online
meeting place for people looking to meet others, find a job, or locate
an apartment as well as trade in such goods as tickets, furniture,
cars and sporting goods.
In NYC, when you don't have a car and you need to move stuff that
won't fit in a taxi and isn't enough that you need an entire huge
moving van, you call a "man with a van".** I recently used the
services of a guy named Paul, recommended by a friend of a friend.
After packing the back of his truck with my things, we set off for our
destination, chatting along the way. He asked me how I'd found him and
we eventually got to talking about craigslist.
Paul told me that these days, he got most of his jobs from CL and
only one or two a week from personal referrals. I found that
surprising and when I pressed him further, he told me that because of
CL, he's been able to do pursue moving (which he really likes doing)
as a full-time career. I can't remember the exact quote, but Paul said
something to the effect that he can't believe he's getting away with
starting a full-time business on CL without it costing him a single
dime.
I'd never really thought about it before, but in some ways, CL
helps lots of people build businesses cheaper and more effectively
than more "robust", complex, and expensive enterprise software
solutions. Movers are
just one example. CL can help you find employees
for your business. If you've got a van, you can pick up free furniture and
electronics around the city, fix or refurbish, and sell it. You
can start a business doing computer
troubleshooting, piano lessons, buying
and fixing up old motorcycles, or escort and sensual massage services. And if you need
something done for your business but don't have the money to pay for
it, you can always barter goods or services
in exchange. These are just the obvious examples. Does anyone know of
anyone using craigslist in more creative ways to make a living or
other examples of people succeeding in business using CL?
** Don't know how this evolved, but folks in the "man with a van"
profession like to rhyme the names of their businesses. My guy was
"Call Paul to Haul", but you will also probably find "Chuck/Buck with
a Truck", "Cory with a Lorry", "Schmuck with a Truck", "Call Jack to
Pack", and so on. (Oh, I'd recommend using Paul if you need a man with
a van...contact me
if you'd like his info.)
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What eBay Could Learn From Craigslist
What eBay Could Learn From Craigslist06/05/2005 10:45 PM These days, triple-digit annual growth rates are rare among major Web
sites. Meet that rarity: Craigslist.
No Frills, but Everything Else Is on Craigslist (washingtonpost.com)
No Frills, but Everything Else Is on Craigslist (washingtonpost.com)08/19/2004 08:13 AM washingtonpost.com - Ernie Miller, a 38-year-old software developer in
Silver Spring, offers a telling clue as to how www.craigslist.org
became the Internet's go-to place to solve life's vexing problems.
Microsoft Bloggers: Who Can Keep Up?
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