The Power of Us: The $50K Media & Tech Challenge RSS

We Media and Ashoka's Changemakers are running a competition to launch the best new ideas for using media and technology to change the world. The best ideas will get $25K to launch. Here's the unofficial site for participants, fans and anyone who happens to find themselves here.

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Our friend Craig Newmark and his left-brain friends designed craigslist with the aesthetic panache of a spread sheet. From that perspective it is a success that would make an accountant blush: 47 million page views monthly in the U.S. alone, and revenues of $100 million annually from a small percentage of the site’s content that is not free.

But even the most dedicated admirer can see that craigslist is a fine mess of informational spaghetti that can cause design indigestion. Wired magazine…

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