We’ve got a category at the AIM Group we call YACLWs — “yet another Craigslist wannabe.” Today we’re officially adding a new category: “Yet another ‘Aw shucks, I’m just little ole me, Craig Newmark’ interviews.”

This week’s offender is Inman News, a site we generally admire tremendously. Yet the ridiculous, for-no-apparent-reason Craig Newmark interview this week on Inman News is just silly. Or stupid. Or really, offensive, since none of the important questions that could have been asked of Newmark were asked.

Inman, a real estate site, plopped the interview down on the site without explanation about why it felt it was worthwhile, why now, why Newmark instead of Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster (who actually runs the site, which is obviously of great interest to real estate agents and brokers)?

What would we ask Newmark or Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster, if we could ever get them to  answer our questions?

— “With profits in the tens of millions of dollars annually, what does Craigslist do with its money?”

— “You voluntarily eliminated ‘adult services’ ads in 2010, although you were under a lot of pressure from law enforcement officials and anti-trafficking advocates to do so. Do you still feel that was the right choice? Do you feel Backpage.com should eliminate the ads as well? If so, why? And if not, why not?”

— “Now that you’re closing the Craigslist Foundation, will Craigslist be increasing its support of the Craigslist Charitable Fund?” (Craigslist Inc., owned primarily by Newmark and Buckmaster, has donated more than $11.2 million to Craigslist Charitable Fund since 2008. The fund, in turn, makes direct donations to hundreds of charitable organizations.)

— “And what about your personal charitable contributions?” (None of our business, or anyone’s, we suppose, but we’d still ask.)

— Newmark has launched a site, CraigConnects.org, that serves as a technology support platform for non-profit organizations and a blog for his thoughts on charitable needs. “How’s it going? What’s it accomplished? Any specifics?”

(We used to talk to Newmark and Buckmaster from time to time, but ever since we started publishing our annual Craigslist revenue reports, they ignore us or put out nasty comments about us on Buckmaster’s blog.)

The questions in the Inman interview — it’s here, but why bother? — range from the simple “what is one mistake you made” to the asinine: “What’s one thing most people don’t know about you … ?” which brought the equally asinine response, “I actually exist.”

Yeh, Craig. So you exist. But what do you have to say about substantive issues? You’re great at ducking those questions — the ones with any real meaning.

Today in the US is Bill of Rights day, which involves a celebration of the 220-year-old First Amendment*. At a time when many project the death of newspapers, the Knight Foundation and the American Society of News Editors (ASNE)  have collaborated on this Twitter-based FreeToTweet competition. It’s a smart way to get out the message that traditional media are evolving to multimedia, and to help create top-of-mind awareness of newspapers among a younger demographic. While it’s not a classified-focused or even advertising-focused project, this marketing is important to the success of both.

During FreeToTweetDay – today, December 15 – Students 14-22 can tweet #FreetoTweet or email their message about what the First Amendment means to them. They can attach and include links.  The top 22 tweeter or emailers will be awarded $5000 college scholarships.  A panel of judges will first narrow down the entrants into a group of finalists, and then choose the winners. It’s a great idea, though we wish they’d brought the public into the judging at some point – generating even more discussions on Facebook and Twitter. This could have virally marketed the message even further.

Some of what we’ve seen so far:

Read the press release here.

*Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Adicio’s recruitment, automotive and real estate Web platforms are already optimized for mobile. With the new service, Adicio clients can now offer advertisers their own branded mobile classified presence, with custom content, vanity URLS, flexible color themes, instant alerts and more.

Sony's recruitment mini-site in behalf of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The mini-sites maintain the functionality of Adicio’s full-blown mobile platforms. Job-seekers can use them to see an employer’s latest listings and apply for jobs. Home buyers can view properties and contact Realtors for showings. Auto buyers can see an auto dealer’s inventory and schedule test drives.

“Adicio’s Mobile Mini Sites put job seekers, home shoppers, and car buyers in touch with online classifieds from their mobile phones,” CEO Rick Miller said in a release. “With almost 80 percent of the nation’s population using mobile phones and 71 percent of smartphone users searching for products and services after seeing an ad, this solution merges the power of mobile with the power of advertising to customers on the go.”

It’s a premium service to Adicio clients. Price depends on volume, Chief Alliance Officer Tony Lee told us, and whether the request includes a “wrap” – Adicio parlance for indexing listings from specific advertisers’ sites. “It depends on the number of mobile mini-sites we create for advertisers on behalf of the client,” he said. “Some clients will want a few just for their top advertisers, while others we’ve spoken to anticipate selling hundreds of them each month.”

Adicio’s full release is here.