Last week, deputies in Polk County, Fla., arrested 60 people–including a Disney employee, a man with breast implants, a 15-year-old runaway with a 2-year-old infant, and her pimp–in an online prostitution bust dubbed Operation Curtain Call. A year ago the sensational sting would likely have been the next in a long litany of tabloid-friendly Craigslist Read More
“Oh, hello,” a 25-year-old professional’s recent post on Craigslist begins. The writer, who is looking for a one-year lease in Manhattan, maybe Soho, is interesting for two reasons. Firstly, because he’s willing to spend up to $1,400 per month for a room in an apartment, which is a lot more than most 20-somethings feel Read More
College students: They are wide-eyed, they are eager, and they will be resuming their studies in but a few short weeks! So how easy is it to dupe them? Unscrupulous Craig’s Listers are optimistic.
Today’s first lesson is that Brooklyn is not close to New York University. We’ll concede the convenience of the L train, Read More
Last week, n+1 posted an essay on the world of online dating. Describing the mentality of various venues, Katherine Sharpe wrote, “Reading Craigslist, I feel as though I am dipping my cup straight into the swift-flowing stream of human need.”
The site’s personals, she found, were bracingly specific—honest and unashamed.
The real Read More
Two years ago, at Davos, the annual summit of great technological and economic minds, a media scion of one of the most powerful journalistic voices in the world was demanding answers from Facebook’s co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
“He said, Mark, how do we get a community like you? Tell me how!” remembered Jeff Jarvis, the Read More
Last night, on April 20, Michael Wolff, the Vanity Fair columnist and founder of Newser, was sitting on a chair—arms folded, legs crossed—on the third floor of the Time Warner Center while a downpour rumbled outside. Surrounded by flickering television screens, mobile phones Read More
New York Post: On a morning when the knuckle-dragging element of the Internet burns up with the question of whether Miss USA candidate Carrie Prejean of California was denied the crown because she said she believes marriage should be between a man and a woman, the front pages of the tabloids this morning are hardly Read More
The New York Post: In a story that seems ripped from a Law & Order storyboard, the Post this morning tackles the incredibly sad story of the death of ABC News Radio's George Weber. Police say that 16-year-old John Katehis admits to stabbing the newsman in the course of a meeting at his house that Read More
The New York Post: In a story that seems ripped from a Law & Order storyboard, the Post this morning tackles the incredibly sad story of the death of ABC News Radio’s George Weber. Police say that 16-year-old John Katehis admits to stabbing the newsman in the course of a meeting at his house that Read More
