Media designer Alan Jacobson is not always a fan of the ideas presented on this website (he expressed his disdain for the idea in our Classifieds Manifesto, for example, for newspapers to actually start selling things like cars, in addition to just publishing ads), but he does agree that if newspaper publishers would just break [...]

Attention! Classifieds are dead! Long live classifieds 2.0!! Christopher Ryan and I have channeled our frustration as well as our optimism, and some concrete solutions, into the Classifieds Manifesto, an 11-point document that explains how newspapers can take the downward-sloping revenue line that represents their classifieds business, and turn it upward again. We don’t believe [...]