Saw this on IndianaGrain.com:
Craigslist has been accused of single-handedly killing the newspaper industry by conditioning people to pay as little as zero for classified ads. The traditional lifeblood for newspapers for your used car is being drained dry by this international classified ad network and by slightly-more-expensive-and-more-complicated auction services like eBay. You can’t blame Craiglist for innovating. You’d have to blame the entire internet.
To be fair, Craigslist did donate $1.6 million to UC Berkeley’s ‘New Media’ program, so it’s not exactly the bad guy. Scott Outing from Reinventing Classifieds wrote an open letter to Craig and Jim Buckmaster last summer with some suggestions on an intervention, and later posted one to Google which readers could help write (though few did).
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The internet has changed the way people do business in every industry. No matter what type of work you are in, you cannot afford not to have a good working knowledge of the internet and the fast paced innovation going on 24/7.
Those guys don’t sleep.