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Delegates at the 2005 Beyond the Printed Word conference will be examining the most successful new strategies for building web audiences, including introducing blogs, podcasts and mobile content services.2.7

Lurkers lurk. Sometimes a poster becomes a lurker or a lurker turns into a poster ... Schlosser's interest in the subject stemmed from her own experience after visiting a local ...2.7

On the Internet, Craigslist is a phenomenon. More than 10 million people each month visit this ... The website, which is basically a huge, free listing service (it charges only to list jobs), caters ...2.7

Five years ago this month, Craigslist New York went live. Founder Craig Newmark, a 52-year-old Morristown, New Jersey, native, says he "had some trepidation" about launching the New York version of the San ...2.9

Econoblog Two economist bloggers break down China's revaluation of the yuan. Retirement Weekly Small Business Library Travel Planning Marshall Loeb Personal Fin.2.7

Pay-per-call is a performance-driven search marketing strategy developed over the past year.

NEW YORK - A small two-year-old company called JiWire is building a business by licensing its global wireless hot-spot locator, first to Web sites and now to mobile content providers.2.7

Mountain View, Calif.-based Google Inc. launched Google Earth , a free downloadable software product based on Keyhole technology.2.7

Craigslist has built a cult-like following in certain parts of the U.S., most notably, San Francisco, and to a lesser degree, New York City.2.7

ABC7) , You can buy almost anything on Craigslist, the online bulletin board. But if pet lovers get their way, you won't be able to buy dogs and cats.2.7

The internet's two largest search engines are begging to get hacked. On Wednesday, Google opened a set of programming interfaces for its popular Google Maps service, in the hope hackers will overlay the maps ...2.7

How about some reader-submitted Friday morning Craigslist fun? OK! One distraught renter tees off on her old landlord in Long Island City, a relationship that became strained just after move-in, when the ...2.7

Here is coverage of OhmyNews's first International Citizen Reporters' forum citizen reporting and participatory journalism.2.7

Two women who allegedly posted on the Internet site, Craigslist, that they were willing to perform sex for money, were arrested yesterday as part of a police sting set up inside a hotel room.1.6

Just in time for Canada Day , Topix.net , has expanded their service to Canada. Beginning today, Topix now offers a news page for Canada as well as local "news channels" for over 4,200 Canadian cities and ...4

The Post reports today that hip downtowners are moving to the staid grounds of the Upper East Side, seeking a residential life that's, well, just more boring than life amid an endless sprawl of trendy bars and ...2.7

The Dangers Of Online Dog Sales Jun 21, 2005 5:21 pm US/Pacific The city of San Francisco has ... Now some groups are calling on Craigslist to stop posting pit bull adds.

There are at any given moment untold numbers of frightening ads for frightening things floating around Craigslist.1.3

"The Internet has to be better than the yellow pages, and it hasn't necessarily been," said Gary Stein, a Jupiter Research analyst.3.2

Mickey Alam Khan's article on local search really highlighted what seems to get lost in all of the recent hype from search engines about "local search" . From a small business advertiser's perspective, paid ...

The saga surrounding 70 Washington continues. A Curbed reader offers a Craigslistian analysis of Dumbo's latest residential adventure, and thinking on why you can still own a piece of the dream: There's further ...2.9

In 2004, Victor Reinoso was elected D.C. Board of Education representative for Wards 3 and 4, ... personals section of Craigslist reveals that Rees thinks another good place to kick off a campaign is among romance seekers.2.1

This is a much delayed post from a conversation I had with Salim Ismail , CEO and co-founder of ... Local or Citysearch .

Welcome to the Backfence. I'm James Lileks, and I write the column and moderate a talk corner of startribune.com. This online version is a new twist on your beloved startribune.com. We'll be adding extra stuff ...2

An article June 6 about Craigslist, the online bulletin board, misstated the name of a consulting firm that found in a survey last fall that many newspaper industry executives were unaware of the site's arrival ...

Publishers courting local advertisers are continually looking for an edge in the growing local search business, offering buyers more advanced tools or increased distribution for ads.

Models of Application Integration: Frameworks that Enable Apps to Communicate and Share Data To help enterprise IT professionals better understand the fundamentals of these new models, CMP Media has put ...2.7

Police have busted a drug dealer they say was operating on the popular website "craigslist." The man was arrested for selling crystal meth, the popular name for the stimulant methamphetamine.1.3

LATimes.com Strategy Going Forward : A nice overview of LATimes.com 's strategy going foward, in light of its recent move to open up its subscription ste CalendarLive and redesign the parent site.

Associated Press Knight Ridder Drops Some Online Ad Fees 05.27.2005, 07:57 PM Most of newspaper ... Knight Ridder, which publishes 31 daily papers nationwide, is following the lead of Craigslist.4.6

The Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department is prepared to sue the NAR, charging that its policies are driving up home prices, blocking discounted sales commissions and putting online ...2.7

EBay Inc., the largest Internet marketplace, bought two Web companies that feature classified ... EBay in August bought a 25 percent stake in Craigslist.2.7