Craig Newmark
Craig Newmark
Craig Alexander Newmarkis an American Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based international website Craigslist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth6 December 1952
CityMorristown, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
jobs people needs
People everywhere have the same needs and values. They need a place to live and a job. Beyond that, they may need to sell stuff or get a mate.
jobs business differences
I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.
jobs ideas news
Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.
jobs technology training
We want to offer job training and mentoring and build the site with more robust, reliable and flexible technology.
jobs mean reality
I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.
guys job noticed sudden team thinking
All of a sudden one of my guys noticed they were doing this, ... And then after a little reflection, my team started thinking 'how can we do a better job of this?'
arts cool list simple technology
I started a simple list of what I thought were cool events, arts and technology stuff.
people provide run sites
Our sites are run by the people who use them. We just pretty much provide the infrastructure.
culture goodwill manage people stuff trust
I think people like us because of the culture of trust we have in the site, the culture of goodwill -- and people manage to get stuff done,
check maybe model models publish
The problem is that with blogging, the model is publish first, maybe fact-check later. In newspapers, the model is you fact check first and then publish. But those models are merging.
experience matter similar
We had one similar experience with 9/11. That was a matter of hours, but it was more intense, obviously.
build good people protect work
I'd like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.
conference culture internet means people regarding talking
It's a pretty important conference regarding Internet trends, because people are talking a lot about what's really happening. Not just the technology, but what it means for our culture in general.
careful crowds gets mostly talking wisdom
This wisdom of crowds thing--it may be a cliche, but it's mostly true. What we're talking about here is a democracy, and it works, but you have to be careful before it gets out of control.