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Craigslist Revenue: $100 million In 2009

sfgate.com | Verne Kopytoff, Chronicle Staff Writer | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business


Defying its anti-commercial reputation, Craigslist is expected to rake in $100 million in revenue this year, the most ever for the classified advertis...

Painting a Bulls-Eye on the First Amendment

Leslie Harris | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media


Leslie Harris

The Connecticut Attorney General's assertion that online speech has lower First Amendment protection than speech in newspapers is shocking. He clearly needs to brush up on First Amendment law.

Because "Classified Ad Killer" Doesn't Have the Same Ring

Leslie Harris | Posted 05.25.2009 | Media


Leslie Harris

A great many of the tragic incidents that tangentially involve the Internet have little or nothing to do with the Internet itself. The Craigslist case is the latest example of that phenomenon.

Could Twitter Have Saved The New York Times?

Diane Tucker | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business


Diane Tucker

Newspapers have great capital: talented reporters with superb rolodexes. But if the bigshots at the top don't join the rest of us in the 21st century soon, those writers will be out of work.