The sex diaries of the city that never sleepsThanks to Craigslist, GPS enabled social-networking iPhone apps and a host of other technological developments, sex has gone digital and nowhere more so than in NYC. NY Mag examine their anxiety filled Sex Diaries series to find what Sex in the City really means.
Craigslist
Craigslist: an ugly, anarchic success
Classifieds website Craigslist is ugly, run by an eccentric introvert who pretends to be a squirrel, does no marketing and employs only a handful of staff — yet it attracts millions of visitors (and dollars) every day. Wired examines the internet’s most unlikely success story.
Craigslist‘s revenue: $100m? More like $300m
The press are all excited over a report that online classified site Craigslist will defy market trends to make $100m this year — but Wired crunch the numbers and come up with a much higher figure.
Craigslist defends its hookers in trademark style
Law-enforcement officials have been slamming Craigslist’s prostitute ads for years. But CEO Jim Buckmaster hasn’t taken things lying down.
The dangers of Craigslist hookups
Using popular classifieds site Craigslist to find anonymous sex can have a dangerous result.
US classifieds fall 60% in just two years
American newspaper print ad revenues fell to their lowest level in 14 years last year and online ad revenues fell for the first time in five years, according to figures for 2008 ad revenues from the American Newspaper Association, writes Glenn Dyer.
