Steve Rosenbaum has written a useful trend piece for AlwaysOn, “2009 - 5 Trends That Will Change Media.” Here’s an excerpt of his first trend, which has classifieds implications:
Growth of the Curation Economy
“As the cost of the creation of content continues to come down, more content creators will come online. This will create a huge […]

Another gun is being aimed at knocking down Craigslist, this time by an entrepreneur who sees the weak spot as Craigslist’s walled-garden approach to classifieds.
San Francisco-based iList.com just recently popped out from under the radar, and founder Chris Abad thinks that the key to creating a competing network of free classifieds websites that actually has […]

Below is a 6-minute video essay by Paul Bradshaw, a UK new-media expert and senior lecturer in online journalism at Birmingham University. This is worth your time. He’s talking about the profound change in distribution models for media that’s taken place; it’s an excellent presentation about what many media practitioners don’t yet fully understand.
Bradshaw is […]

David Mastio of BlogNetNews.com

Here’s what I would like to see happen in pretty broad strokes.
I start with the idea that classifieds have value as content as much as they have value to advertisers.
Step 1: The local daily puts its entire database of classifieds live and constantly updating on the web (no waiting for the […]