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What is the internet, anyway? The idea probably makes you think of huge corporate sites like Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon, and (gasp!) even MySpace. These giant, multi-billion dollar companies spend millions and employ tens of thousands of people worldwide in an effort to get your attention and money.
But did you know that there's a website run by only 22 people in an old Victorian in San Francisco that, despite never having paid a single penny in advertising,
-Is responsible for billions of dollars of interpersonal commerce--more than any other stop on America's internet?
-Provides the majority of housing and jobs for the nation's urban population?
-Has hooked up more people than ALL other dating sites combined?
-Has grown in web traffic 100% a year since it's creation over a decade ago?
-Is 99.99% FREE to use and 100% FREE of banner adds, pop-ups or any other annoying internet advertising which you are probably seeing out of the corner of your eye at this very moment?
It's all true and it's called www.craigslist.org.
Since Craig Newmark founded the site in 1995 simply to "help out, in a very small way" he has resisted an onslaught of advertising offers, multi-million-dollar buy outs and even the courtship of national TV shows and Hollywood studios. Now for the first time, for a single, random twenty-four hour period, he has opened up the list to an underground film crew to go behind the scenes and come face to face with some of the posters on the world's biggest "digital commons".
Ever wonder who that guy is who's selling women's army pants at 3:30 in the morning? Or who's REALLY posting on Missed Connections? Are the people behind all those 'personal' ads actually who they say they are? Take an unpredictable (and uncensored) ride for one day on the REAL internet, and find out!
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SF IndieFest:
"You know Craigslist-- it's the secret engine that drives the local economy, the place you likely found your last job, apartment, car, couch, bandmate, dance lesson, bankruptcy attorney or Friday-night date. Everybody's got a Craigslist story, and filmmaker Michael Ferris Gibson came up with an ingenious idea to find a few of them: he set out to document one random day on Craigslist. What he delivers is a rollicking portrait of the urban experience in all its eccentric glory - a cross section of folks doing everything from selling 250 pairs of women's army-surplus pants to everything-they-own (to finance a trip around the world); guys looking for roommates or wives; an Ethel Merman impersonator looking for a back-up band and a strange fellow hoping some hot chicks will show up for his basement sex party. Looking for a support group for your diabetic cat? Need to rent a husband, find a horny poodle, a gay sperm donor or a pre-op transsexual escort? Maybe you need a movie crew (that's right - Gibson's cast, crew and music were all found through Craigslist). Gibson even found what can only be called the Ultimate Craigslist Story, which you've just gotta hear. There may be Craigslists all over the globe at this point, but Craigslist will always be a uniquely American creation, and Gibson's terrific movie is a giddy celebration of total freedom and everything we love and hate about it. Find a date on Craigslist, and watch it!"
