There’s the movie “24 Hours on Craigslist,” and (sadly) there’s been the “Craigslist Killer” and far, far too much more written and said about Craigslist. Now there’s a play based on a “casual encounters” ad on Craigslist. “Boom” is described as a “thoughtful riff on sex and disaster.” Running through early February in Portland, Ore. Click the headline above for more.

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KFC and Indiana cities team up to help the residents, raise money for the city and market Kentucky Fried Chicken; lessons hear for publishers, broadcasters and their advertisers or advertising prospects.

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There’s a great marketing lesson here: Create an interesting conversation and it’s more likely to go viral on you.

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Auto shoppers can now pursue their automotive wish list with New Car Adviser, a licensed product now on AutoTrader.com that publishers might well use to lure new dealer advertisers. 

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Site lists foreclosures, bank repossessions and tax-lien sales. 

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There are some valuable insights in the research that found Craigslist supports sex, which we reported on a few days ago. While we’re still amazed that so much work went into reaching such an obvious conclusion, there was much more to the research than we initially thought. And it pointed us to another academic research study which found that ads for prostitution increased substantially in Denver and Minneapolis during the 2008 political conventions.

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News Corp. chairman looks to build new revenue paradigm

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Will matching technology transform recruitment? We think it will play a role, but a limited one. SmartMoney magazine identifies four sites as “top contenders” in the job-matching business. We’re familiar with three of their four and list one they missed; we’d stay as far away as possible from the fourth site SmartMoney mentioned. 

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San Antonio, Texas-based Clear Channel Radio plans national advertising sales strategy and sales force in the U.S. 

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Monster.com is now hiring. Heavily. Dozens of sales positions and three VP positions, including a VP of advertising sales job, are open and posted on its site. (Read more, and go to the key links, by clicking the headline above.)

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Publishers often need to add images to articles that appear on their Web sites. But that can be very time consuming. A new startup searches across 15 photo sharing sites and shortens the choose and insert process to two steps. And it’s free.

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In five years, according to research by Morgan Stanley, more people will access the Internet from mobile devices than from desktop computers. What does that mean for your business?

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There are lessons to be learned from the EBay / Craigslist battle, and they apply to lots of entrepreneurs and businesspeople. In a BusinessWeek.com column, Tom Taulli outlines five key points and comments on the “big-time dealmaking --- gone wrong and wild” about strategic agreements between companies.

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How 300 journalists at 100 top U.S. newspapers are using Twitter: Boston Herald tweets nearly 100 times a day; most journalists don’t carry on two-way tweet conversations. 

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From the “this ain’t news” file: Craigslist helps sell sex! And it took eight graduate students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and their professor, who has both a law degree and a Ph.D. in forensic psychology, to figure that one out.

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Jay Small, a tech-savvy leader in interactive media who’s worked at Central Newspapers, Belo and several other major newspaper / media companies, is leaving Scripps to join Cordillera Communications as president of interactive media.

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Simon Fuller at the helm of yet another highly-emulatable new interactive online TV idea; local publishers and broadcasters could make money while they help their local audience fulfill their dreams

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Interactive TV has been heralded for years as the next big advertising opportunity. Now with the rapid spread of social media, viewers are Twittering while they watch the tube. Is this the Holy Grail of interactive TV...or a looming nightmare for advertisers in a real time world?

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Tweets for business begin, CoTweet could be Twitter competitor or collaborator

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Real estate agents are not all alike, real estate verticals are not all timely

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