CA EVENT: An Evening with Craig Newmark (Los Angeles)

craigslist.org may be the only site where you can get anything you need for life cheap, or even for free. The free community classifieds service, launched as an email listserv for San Franciscans in 1995, helps over 50 million monthly users find homes, jobs, cars, stuff, spouses, friends and flings. The site's simple design and old age (in Internet company years) hasn't kept it from being at the pulse of online life. craigslist is one of the top internet websites registering over 13 billion page views per month. The daily flurry of activity on the site has created a full-fledged culture of craigslist in communities around the world--even as most on the site simply want to sell or acquire something, many users participate in ongoing conversations. Founder Craig Newmark visits Zócalo to talk about the web and social change, net neutrality and government transparency, education, and political causes like supporting veterans and  building a stable environment for peace on the West Bank.

Light reception to follow the discussion.

Please RSVP on the Zócalo website.

A Zócalo/New America Foundation Event.

Participants

Craig Newmark
Founder, craigslist.org

Moderator
Jon Healey
Editorial Board Member, Los Angeles Times