Craigslist gigs

[prog]

I kind of don't know why I'm bothering to look at Craigslist "computer gigs" posts. Ninety-five percent of them fall into these formats:

• I'm looking for an "intern" to work 20 hours a week on this project. I have many shiny bottlecaps I can pay you with. Great for college students!

• Here is a somewhat reasonable request for a piece of custom software. Please submit your bid. Not looking to spend more than $50.

• MY COMPUTER BREOK I PUT THE CABLE IN AND THE MAN SAID IT WORK OK BUT IT IS BLANK HOW LONG TO FIX

Anyway, this is why I launched a Google Adwords campaign for Appleseed yesterday...

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

You're looking, because it's *only* 95% (or so). For a free site, that's not a bad chaff rate...

That said it is tempting to run a craigslist.snark site which categorizes the ten most common stupids in each category. ("AMAZING sofa. Smells funny, left in rain all year. $1200 AND NOT LESS! I paid $1500 for it!")

[prog.livejournal.com]

Heh... actually, if you subscribe to CL boards' RSS feeds, you can see the inline snark-posts before they get mod-zapped. They make for about five percent of the total content in this board, but I didn't count em in this tally. :)

Consider writing again

[taskboy3000.livejournal.com]

I still believe professional article writing has short and long term benefits for you.