CA EVENT: An Evening with Craig Newmark (San Francisco)

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 and the New America Foundation 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.

For a video and summary of last night's event, please visit the Zocalo Public Square website.

A Zócalo/New America Foundation Event.

Zócalo Public Square is a non-profit that creates intellectual community by presenting smart ideas in an open, non-partisan, multi-ethnic space. See map: Google Maps

Participants

Craig Newmark
Founder, craislist.org

moderator
Douglas McGray
Irvine Fellow, New America Foundation