{"id":178,"date":"2005-06-02T23:56:20","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T04:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/02\/housingmapscom\/"},"modified":"2005-06-02T23:57:23","modified_gmt":"2005-06-03T04:57:23","slug":"housingmapscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/02\/housingmapscom\/","title":{"rendered":"Housingmaps.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/20050603housingmaps.png\"><img align=right src='http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/thumb-20050603housingmaps.png' alt='Housingmaps.com' \/><\/a> When I went looking for a newspaper to find an apartment in the Bay Area, I came up extremely short. Newspaper listings were very slim and the ones that were in the paper didn&#8217;t look very good. That is when I realized that, in the Bay Area, <strong>print is dead<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to find a job, a place to live, a relationship, a couch, most things&#8230; you go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigslist.org\/\">Craigslist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, taking this whole inter-web thing one logical step further: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.housingmaps.com\/\">www.housingmaps.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing. It&#8217;s easy to use. It&#8217;s&#8230;. obvious. After years of nobody thinking to put all these kinds of elements together, this match is (in hindsight) perfectly obvious and perfectly terrific.<\/p>\n<p>The days of print classifieds for a variety of items are numbered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. When I went looking for a newspaper to find an apartment in the Bay Area, I came up extremely short. Newspaper listings were very slim and the ones that were in the paper didn&#8217;t look very good. That is when I realized that, in the Bay Area, print is dead. If you want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}