NEW YORK: Consumer Reports’ Kevin McKean shared a few statistics from the company’s annual report on Internet privacy and security at a roundtable discussion held at NYU on Thursday night. Shortly thereafter, a panel of experts wondered aloud whether the privacy controls belong on the social networks or on the people who use them.
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NEW YORK - At NYU on Thursday evening, Consumer Reports raised tough questions about how to regulate the Internet in a round table discussion entitled “Facebook and Your Privacy: What Every Consumer Should Know in the Age of Social Networking.” In his keynote speech, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark declared that “trust is the new black.”
Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist and, more recently, craigconnects, was added to the board of directors at The Center for Public Integrity.
Executive director William E. Buzenberg said:
Craig Newmark is an iconic visionary who saw the community-empowerment potential of the Internet early on. It’s a great honor to have him on our board, where he can help the Center for Public Integrity in its own community-building efforts linked to in-depth investigative reporting and truth-telling.
Newmark added:
The center does high-quality investigative reporting, vital to the future of a free country. Citizens need to stand up and be part of that.
Bloomberg Television is continuing to boost its coverage of the technology sector, following up Tuesday’s announcement of the addition of Cory Johnson and last month’s hiring of former CNN China correspondent Emily Chang with a profile of Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs on this week’s installment of Bloomberg Game Changers.
Airing Thursday at 9 p.m. ET, the Jobs episode of Bloomberg Game Changers will feature interviews with fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, former Apple CEO John Scully, journalist turned venture capitalist Michael Moritz, Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, former Apple “Mac Evangelist” and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki, and technology journalist and former Apple employee Robert X. Cringely.
Bloomberg Game Changers will profile Jobs from Apple’s start in his garage through the success of the iPad, touching on his departure from Apple, the failure of NeXT, his bounce-back at Pixar, and his return to Apple.
As for its recent hires, Bloomberg TV said Johnson and Chang will work on a yet-to-be-announced new show based in San Francisco. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Johnson had been a hedge fund manager and private investor, with media roots as a founding reporter for TheStreet.com, a writer-reporter at Time, a senior editor at Vibe, and CNBC’s first Silicon Valley reporter back in 2001.
It’s been days, a lifetime in the world of online news, since Craigslist quietly placed a “censored” image over its “adult services” link yet the surprising move remains a hot topic. Was the move a dramatic concession by the pioneering ad-services site or strategic “check mate” move by an unpredictable company? Let’s take a look at the top 5 takeaways and potential implications of Craigslist’s decision.
After he dropped in to cover mediabistro Circus, Beet.TV’s Andy Plesser headed over to yet another media conference happening during this busy Internet Week in New York, the IWantMedia conference.
Plesser asked Craig Newmark whether his list helped kill the newspaper as we know it. Newmark calls that kind of talk “urban legend” and New York Times media columnist David Carr agrees, sort of, saying Craigslist may have “shot the back end off of newspapers but if Craig hadn’t done it somebody else would have.”
Breaking: With his site at the center of a murder investigation in Massachusetts, soft-spoken Craigslist founder Craig Newmark sits down for an interview with ABC’s Nightline.
WebNewser has learned Martin Bashir will interview Newmark for Friday night’s show.
We’re told Newmark will respond to questions about criminal activity connected to the site in the wake of the arrest of Philip Markoff, who’s been dubbed the alleged Craigslist killer.
InternetNews.com’s David Needle on assignment for WebNewser at the UGCX.
In the press room with Craig Newmark who’s prepping for his talk here at the User Generated Content Conference & Expo . He’s chatting with a few reporters and Evan Forster of TuffBreak who will be introducing him. No CEO title for him, Newmark is careful to note, his title is Customer Service Rep and founder. He said he doesn’t use notes or Powerpoint. But he does “tweet”, you can follow him on Twitter. There is a CEO at Craigslist, it’s Jim Buckmaster.
It was a busy morning for Newmark who drove down from San Francisco to speak at the event after checking his many bird feeders. Newmark’s a big Kindle fan and said he already ordered the new model announced today. “I’ve already read 44 books on the Kindle so it’s paid for itself,” he said. Last book read, The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly.
Someone asks if she can connect with him on LinkedIn. “You can,” says Newmark in his distinctive, well-modulated voice. “But I don’t use LinkedIn much and I probably forgot my password. I’m not a good networker.”
Meanwhile, Craigslist marches on. He said the site now gets about 50 million unique visitors a month, 13 billion page views a month for its 567 branches. “Those numbers are best guess based on what we see and the different measurement sites. None of them are consistent.
He said his talk will include a mention of his being a nerd.
A very successful one at that!
On Thursday, a number of prominent health bloggers from the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and more will gather at Consumer Reports headquarters in Yonkers, NY for a day-long summit to discuss — and blog about — the Web’s role in empowering consumers to make critical decisions about their health.
Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, who sits on the board of directors of Consumers Union, will speak to the group which includes Scott Hensley, Editor of the Wall Street Journal Health Blog and Jessica Gottlieb, a Mommy Blogger.
We’ll let you know how it goes…
