Craig Newmark

Hey there, are you feeling squirrelly? Many of you know my love for squirrels and birds. I've decided to team up with @common_squirrel and @NWF to raise money for #Squirrels4Good. I'm a fan of urban survivors, and for that matter, I've been told I can get a little squirrelly, and more than once. I know other people really have an affinity for squirrels, too. Here's the deal, for each time someone uses the hashtag, #Squirrels4Good on Twitter or on my Facebook page or NWF's facebook page, I...Read Full Story

If you follow this blog, you know that I go after what I want. With RELENTLESS DETERMINATION. There is an interview I’ve wanted for some time. It was Craig. THE Craig, founder of craigslist (who nicely corrected my spelling of CraigsList, explaining it should be written in all lower-case). The way he spells craigslist and his newest initiative, craigconnects, is just so very Craig- understated, modest, simple.  When I interviewed him, I kept challenging him for more MEAT, more stories, more...Read Full Story

By Heather King | September 14th, 2011 TweetCraig Newmark is a self-professed nerd, an ingenious, committed philanthropist and a wry savant. He founded craigslist in 1995 as an email distribution list for friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area. The service became web-based a year later; it fast expanded into other classified categories and U.S. cities. Today, it covers most countries in the world. Despite his phenomenal success, Craig Newmark has not followed the...Read Full Story

Hey, I've worked with Aneesh for a coupla years, and bear witness that he's the real deal, and has done a lot for the country, serving citizens well and providing a good return for the taxpayer dollar.Here you see him, on the left, with Joaquin Alvarado from American Public Media, and myself, on January 25th at the White House. (Photo by Jay Rosen from NYU.) We were discussing how to use government data to help people, including improved customer service, along with some others smart...Read Full Story

Friends this craigslist I will never understand why it has so much traffic. The leader of this company seems like your typical computer geek and for all the revenue that craiglist makes you would think they would add more jobs to the industry. if anything http://www.craiglsit.com/ success is bad for the economy as it is leading to the death of newspapers. newspapers were once part of an important element to society, but alas younger generations want to change things and it is mostly for the...Read Full Story

Bloomberg Game Changers profiles Craigslist founder Craig Newmark.Add this to your queueAdded: Wed Mar 07 22:45:15 UTC 2012Air date: Thu Mar 24 00:00:00 UTC 2011Duration: 25:12Read Full Story

Times are tough for this Internet mogul. His big cash cow of adult services has just shut down and it generated about thirty million dollars a year for Mr Newmark and his worthless craigslist.com site. There is no other reason to go to this lame boring site except to get some good hooker shit. It is Internet companies and founders like him who gave the Obama campaign millions so government can keep funding their adventures. Comparing the money that Obama got from these computer related...Read Full Story

The Internet Society in Geneva, Switzerland has announced its inaugural list of "Pioneers, Innovators and Global Connectors." While the roll call includes brilliant people who made vital contributions to the Internet that remain largely unknown to a public that takes daily advantage of their work (like the guy who put the "@" in e-mail addresses) some critics are raising questions about who was included -- and excluded -- from the list. Criticism has ranged from whimsical to well-deserved...Read Full Story

Well, I love ‘em also. WeLoveBirds.org is a very new site for people who love watching birds. You’ve seen that I’m excited about the birds who visit my home office, including the deck outside, as in Newmark’s Wild Kingdom. These folks are way more serious, professional about it, recommended! There’s a new social networking site for bird lovers where you can share blogs, photos, videos, and your bird questions. The partnership between NRDC(advocacy) and Cornell Lab (research) gives you...Read Full Story

Well, I love ‘em also. WeLoveBirds.org is a very new site for people who love watching birds. You’ve seen that I’m excited about the birds who visit my home office, including the deck outside, as in Newmark’s Wild Kingdom. These folks are way more serious, professional about it, recommended! There’s a new social networking site for bird lovers where you can share blogs, photos, videos, and your bird questions. The partnership between NRDC(advocacy) and Cornell Lab (research) gives you...Read Full Story