Web 2.0: Classifieds as Entertainment
From Techcrunch. Someone placed an ad on Craigslist saying that anything at a home in Jacksonville, Oregon was up for grabs. People responded, and carted away most of the belongings of resident Robert Salisbury. He arrived home to thirty people picking over the last of his stuff. Even the man’s horse was taken.
Arrington sums up Craig’s List well. It’s not uncommon for classifieds to become entertainment. In Chicago we have the Reader, before the web exploded, the classifieds were a source of entertainment.
In 2000 living in New York, I remember fondly visiting Craig’s List for entertainment after trying to pick up furniture for my apartment on the same site. Digg has the following as a popular link cinder blocks while this post is an honest backlash against artist job openings that you would never see in the newspaper model. These posts seems to show that the “free” and “open” model of CA has evolved classifieds beyond the traditional newspaper model. One more sad note for newspapers, maybe but my wife and I will still be entertained by the homes for sale in the New York Times and Chicago Magazine just not as much as looking up homes in our neighborhood on Zillow.com.
