• by Steve Outing

    When reader Bob Wyman, longtime media-technology innovator and currently a member of Google’s technical staff, discovered ReinventingClassifieds.com recently, it reminded him of an essay he wrote for CMC Magazine back in 1996: “Employment Listings Are Another Forfeited Franchise.”
    Wyman’s distant words were a warning to the newspaper industry, urging publishers not to sit back and watch […]

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