Jeremy Zawodny's going to work at Craigslist!!!!!

Not LinkedIn,  not Facebook, not a little start-up, but the little local engine that could  and did go big time--Craigslist!

Jeremy writes: "

But this time it was different. Over the course of about three seconds, something clicked in my little brain and I realized that craigslist is a pretty unique combination of things: a small company with a solid financial base, a great service that I use myself, a focused groups of people who really care about doing things well, and an open-source friendly environment.

I replied that I might be interested myself and things kind of took on a life of their own from there. In the weeks that followed, I got the chance to meet much of the team (including CEO Jim Bukmaster and Craig himself). Each time I came away liking more and more about the team. I've also been impressed at how well the company takes care of its people and how thoughtful they are about making important decisions."

I think this is awesome.

"If I've learned anything from Spread Firefox, BarCamp, coworking and the like, it's that propaganda needs to be free to be effective. In other words, you're not going to convince people of your way of thinking if you lock down what you have, especially if what you have is culture, a mindset or some other philosophical approach that helps people narrow down what constitutes right and wrong."
and
"On the one hand, there's uncertainty about how to build a "national identity"-slash-business on top of lots of user data (that, oh yeah, I thought was supposed to be "owned" by the creators), and on the other, a model of the web, that embraces all its failings, nuances and spaghetti code, but that, more than likely, will stand the test of time as a durable provider of the kind of liberty and agency and free choice that wins out time and again throughout history."

-Chris Messina, writing at factory city about open standardsm data portability, and market competition, in this case for data, protocols and so called "open" code.