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Watch Craig Newmark dodge the question of online criminal activity.
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Craig Newmark explains the chain of command at Craigslist.
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The Craigslist founder says living your values is critical to long-term success.
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Craig Newmark explains the revenue model at Craigslist.
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The Craigslist founder unpacks the web’s most comprehensive listings.
The first day of Hillary Clinton's first overseas trip as Secretary of State also happened to coincide with the 67th birthday of North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il. The Democratic […]
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University of Wisconsin Business School Dean Mike Knetter has to look back twenty-five years for a parallel to our current situation.
In the years leading up to the election of Barack Obama, and in the weeks since his inauguration, African Americans have been accruing historical milestones with unprecedented frequency. First African […]
It may be we are past the Lessons To Learn stage in this financial crisis, but some, like a few of those very smart people who maintain jobs in finance, […]
Just as obesity rates in the countries reach new highs, Americans and Britons are cutting back on healthier and more expensive foods in favor of cheap, fast food alternatives. Domino's […]
Even before a U.S. communications satellite and a long-defunct Russian orbiter ran into each other last week and created millions of smaller pieces of debris, the space around Earth was […]
Say No to Prof. Paul Krugman and Bank Nationalization
The specter of a large-scale sabotage on the Internet was raised anew last year with the release of Conficker, an internet worm that crawled out of Eastern Europe through botnets […]
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered that exposure to second-hand smoke could increase your risk of developing dementia and other brain-eating impairments. The research highlighted a 44% increase […]
Under the new two-way power-sharing agreement, Zimbabweans are enthused with a new hope that civil society may take hold in a country Foreign Policy ranked in the top three of […]
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Personal Democracy Forum's Micah Sifry on when international celebrities pose as leaders.
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Micah Sifry examines the possibilities.
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Micah Sifry Reveals the Crisis in Institutional Government