Monday Morning Distraction: Craigslook
Craigslist itself can be a huge distraction. The Best Of Craigslist section is home to of some of the greatest humor on the internet today. Last month Wired ran a cover story about Craigslist. The article is too long to summarize here, but one of the thing it mentioned is that Craig Newmark doesn’t like other sites using the Craigslist data and often either gets them shut down or changes Craigslist itself so third party sites no longer work. It looks like those days are over (at least temporarily). CraigsLook is a third party site which takes the data from Craigslist and allows you to search through it graphically. The only feature it is missing would be to lock in a geographical location. The service is still in beta so maybe that is coming soon.
