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
business real thinking
My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got too excited and hyped up the commercial aspects of the Internet prematurely. I think the vision of the Internet as a democratizing medium.. as everyone's printing press.. is real. We got distracted from that by the mass hallucinations of the bubble.
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.
helping realizing sometimes
In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.
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.
reading political wire
I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.
crooks crime
Crooks are early adopters.
want normal moments
I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.