When they say Craigslist is simple, it really is remarkably simple. The company finally launched an official blog and it’s every bit as functionally pared down as the rest of the site. Maybe even more so – there’s no way to subscribe. What’s a blog without subscription? A blog that gets read a lot less than it would be otherwise!
That’s a real shame because there’s already some very interesting looking content there. This is a solvable problem, though.
Michael Arrington, who saw the blog first, writes “The blog is lacking a RSS feed and has only rudimentary comments, but it is a true blog nonetheless.” Why didn’t they just through up a WordPress install? Nobody knows. While the bloggyness of it all seems debatable, we’ve got your RSS feeds right here.
Half for fun and half for work, we created an RSS feed for the new Craigslist blog that you can subscribe to below. That blog should be interesting, but if it ends up half as interesting as the Best of Craigslist section of the site – then look out Technorati 100.
The New Craigslist Blog
Full feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/craigslistblog2
The body of the posts won’t be delivered in this feed, as we struggled to scrape a feed at all using Feed43. When I say we, in this case, I mean my dashingly handsome and brilliant co-blogger Josh Catone.
Unfortunately, you can’t take for granted that anything you build on top of Craigslist is going to survive, even if it solves a problem over there. The beautiful multi-city search tool Crgslst got shut down days after we wrote about it here. Luckily the wonderful Image preview extension for Firefox still works – check that one out.
The Best of Craigslist
The feed URL below will deliver the items on the Best of Craigslist page – warning lots of naughty words – very funny stuff. Even the Best of Craigslist’s own native RSS feed is broken, so we scraped that too. Anybody who said you couldn’t build a huge company online without giving RSS its due was obviously wrong.
Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BestofCraigslist2
As was pointed out by one of our fantastic commenters, it turns out there is a full feed available for Best of Craigslist at
We hope you enjoy these feeds. Isn’t RSS a wonderful thing? We sure think so here at RWW.
