By John N. Frank

Craig was at Real Estate Connect --- yes, that Craig --- Craig Newmark, the founder of craigslist.org.

If you don’t know what Craigslist is, find out. It can be an important tool for displaying property listings (see REALTOR® magazine’s March cover story on Real Estate 2.0 for some examples of people using Craigslist for their listings).

Craig mentioned that his site only charges for job ads and for rental listings in New York City. He then chided some New York real estate pros for trying to avoid the $10-per-apartment listing fee by posting in the apartments for rent by owner section, which carries no fee.

Everyone works the angles in New York, Craig; welcome to the Big Apple.

Video Everywhere (Sigh)
People with video cameras were everywhere at Connect, including at least one who was using her camera on fellow panelists and the audience at her session.

I also was interviewing one techie who took a still photo of me and quickly put it on his Web site to show me how easy to use his company’s Web site technology is.

I’m not sure if I like everyone being able to instantly become a member of the paparazzi like that. Let’s hope some sort of video etiquette evolves to maintain some level of privacy for all of us. I like fleeting fame as much as the next person but there has to be some limits.