If daily newspapers are dying, blame Craigslist (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

PBS.org ^ | November 23, 2006 | Robert X. Cringely

[knews_hound]

I have bought and sold from Craigslist and cannot suggest it highly enough.

It is not eBay, and does not try to be.

It tries only to be the internet equivalent of any one of a number of free (to you) weeklies that arrive in your mail as The Penny Saver or other catchy name,

That is, it is localized want ads that fulfill a niche, and they do it very well.

one of my many hobbies is cars, both collector and performance and I use Craigslist almost exclusively to both buy and sell.

Why would I pay 75 bucks for a print and with a single very small black and white picture and 25 word maximum ad length when I can write as much as I want, put up four full color pictures and give both a phone and email address FOR FREE?

Newspapers are dead, they will continue to twitch a few more years before they expire completely.

Newspapers; Yesterdays Technology Tomorrow©

Cheers,

knewshound

http://www.knewshound.blogspot.com/

[Tanniker Smith]

I've known people who have gotten jobs through Craigslist, so there's something to it.

[Tribune7]

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