Craigslist Foundation boot camp coming August 14th!:

This is a blog post by Craig Newmark hosted by the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.

It’s about some symposium that Newmark will be at to promote community through social media or some such. However, my issue is not with Newmark but with The Chronicle itself.

Now in The Chronicle’s defense, they do post these disclaimers about their blogs.

Editor’s note:
This is an SFGate.com City Brights Blog. These blogs are not written or edited by SFGate or the San Francisco Chronicle. The authors are solely responsible for the content.

City Brights are prominent local citizens and experts with a unique Bay Area perspective that is often enlightening, sometimes infuriating and always thought-provoking.

However, with all the crimes that craigslist is facilitating, especially in the areas of prostitution and human trafficking, is this not a conflict of interest? Should The Chronicle be allowing Craig Newmark to generate content for them when craigslist is a classifieds competitor to the Chronicle? Is this why the human trafficking protest at the office of craigslist last month got such negative press?

Granted that Mr. Newmark is merely just the face of craigslist these days however this reeks of some kind of collusion.