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...Anne-Marie Zapf-Belanger ’09 is concerned about finding her place at Harvard, she need not worry. In her unusual Craigslist post, she has already displayed some natural predilections common to Harvard students. First, like many of her classmates, Zapf-Belanger is a procrastinator—it was her “pesky” Expository Writing paper which she was avoiding when she wrote her post—but she is also a go-getter who knows what she wants...
...country, asking simply for something creative and specifying only that the tile have a dominant color.Each of these tiles, when returned to Smuts, creates a pixel in his larger work.“The project is spreading virally,” says Smuts, who started advertising for artists on Craigslist. “Just last week, I sent 800 tiles to Serbia.” So far, Smuts is seeing a 60 percent return rate on the 1000 tiles he ships each week.Smuts’s work inherently deals with the picture elements of everyday life, from the pixels...
...Craig" in craigslist transfigured the concept of classified...
Offensive as these ads are, should Craigslist be liable for them? A civil rights group thinks so. The Chicago Lawyers' Committee recently sued Craigslist for running ads that allegedly violate the Fair Housing Act, a federal law that bans housing discrimination. "The laws against discrimination don't change because you add technology," says Stephen Libowsky, an attorney for the group. At issue is whether Craigslist is a publisher, subject to the Fair Housing Act, or a content distributor, which may not be liable for discriminatory ads, according to the Communications Decency Act. Housing-advocacy groups say the definition is crucial...
...Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster says his company hasn't broken any laws. He points out that users flag unlawful ads, which are quickly removed, and that the site warns advertisers not to violate housing laws. "Once you say that Internet sites are responsible for postings, companies will have no choice but to take down highly valued venues," he wrote in an e-mail to TIME. And then how could we find shady garbage-removal guys...