Since drawing all the hippies west, San Francisco's greatest contribution to New York culture, Craigslist, hits the New York Times. The online bulletin board, the closest thing San Francisco has to civic culture, is now growing in other cities. Of course, there are local differences: New York real estate brokers, obnoxious as ever, spam the supposedly non-commercial apartment listings.

A Web Site as 18-Ring Circus of Supply and Demand [New York Times]