Subject: Classified Advertising

• Agent Zero

  Lessons from a lawsuit: When a real-estate deal looks sketchy, perhaps a professional should speak up.

  November 1, 2007

• Craigslist kinda getting rid of 'erotic services' ads

  Photo by Gene X. HwangCraigslist founder Craig Newmark (left) and Craigslist CEO Jim BuckmasterCraigslist is dumping its "erotic services" ads in the next week and will replace them with an adult services section where the ads are manually approved and cost $10, the Los Angeles Times reports. Craigslist won't be accepting new erotic services ads, starting today. This is all in the wake of the so-called "Craigslist Killer" and threats from three attorneys general (including Missouri's Chris Kost

  May 13, 2009

• Kansas Democrats are NOT advertising for U.S. Senatorial candidates on Craigslist

  Someone is recruiting Democrats to run for U.S.Sen. Sam Brownback's soon-to-be-vacant 2nd Congressional District seat on Craigslist with ads like this one.Are Kansas Democrats that hard up for candidates in 2010 that they had to take to an online classified ad? Nope. "We didn't [post it]," Andrea White, communications director for the Kansas Democratic Party, told me this morning. ""Somebody's being funny."The ads are written pretty straight (see here, here, here and here). The first ad appeared

  June 9, 2009