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Looking for a Job
Posted Mon Jun 18 07:51:12 2001 by sbaldwin |
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If I gotta read one more article on spiffing up your resume and cover
letter, I think I am gonna retch. If I get spammed by one more hot
online job site, I know I'm gonna go postal.
For those of you looking for work in the high tech industry, you know
what I mean: you've seen the ads and want to laugh your ass off --
flipdog.com, dice.com, monster.com -- none of them do anything for you
really except flood your email with newsletters and interview tips and
the like. I mean if you're over 25 years of age and don't know how to
write a resume or cover letter or even know how to look for a job, then
you should just as well check into one of those special instituitions
for retards 'cause that's what you are. By IP Frehley |
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Come to ebitch's Reading and Ass-Signing
Posted Sun Jun 17 21:34:49 2001 by orooney |
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Our
very own ebitch has just gotten back from rock-climbing in Ho-Ho-Kus.
To celebrate her return, she's going to be giving a reading of her own
work at KGB this Thursday night, June 21st, at 7:30 PM. Joining ebitch
are Clive Thompson, writer extraordinaire for Wired, Fortune, and New
York Newsday; Casey and Stephen Weiss, authors of "Digital Hustlers:
Living Large and Falling Hard in Silicon Alley," and Gerard van der
Leun, who will read from Katie Hafner's book, "The WELL." KGB is
located at 85 E. 4th Street, 2nd Floor. Full bar, and a chance to meet
and have your ass signed by ebitch for a small fee - depending on how
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The Fear Has Arrived
Posted Sun Jun 17 13:58:04 2001 by sbaldwin |
An AP dispatch
from Silicon Valley has scared the shit out of everyone in tech who's
read it. In the story, a couple of consultants/network guys wound up in
a shelter because they lost their jobs and couldn't pay their bills.
One had a 100K a year job, the other a steady 60K consulting gig. These
men caught the fear and it has swept them into the gutter. By Steve
Gilliard
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Valley of the Lost
Posted Sun Jun 17 00:14:15 2001 by sbaldwin |
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I was fired today. The day I am supposed to begin this corporate diary.
I have been a technical writer at a Silicon Valley start-up for two
years. Let's call the big company that runs the startup "Orifice". Is
that a good enough hint? By Electric Claudia |
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I'm Not Like You
Posted Sat Jun 16 00:00:14 2001 by sbaldwin |
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I don't have a degree in computer science. I'm not an IT professional.
Hell, I can barely work my way through MS Access, let alone design a
programming matrix that will keep track of X or define Y. I'm different
from you, but have gone through a tech layoff just the same and it
still burns when I remember what it was like to wake up on a bright
Friday morning, without a job or a paycheck to pay my rent. By Aaron
Man |
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A Working Class Hero is Something to Be
Posted Fri Jun 15 02:21:59 2001 by sbaldwin |
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"Permanent downsizing," as Business Week called it, and other factors,
has resulted in a middle class that has slowly been squeezed out, with
many more falling to the bottom than rising to the top to reap the
American Dream. Many communities have fallen to a perpetual state of
"Appalachian" stagnation, both urban and rural. Now, as I watch this
new economic turmoil take its toll, devastating the lives of high tech
workers, I wonder, where the hell is the leadership? And then I
remember, hard-times create heroes. By Tom Croft |
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The New, New Dotcom
Posted Wed Jun 13 22:44:26 2001 by sbaldwin |
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What happens next? Everyone wants to know what will be left after the
final SEC official and FBI agent drags Jeff Bezos from his lair at
Amazon and Salon is either absorbed or sinks beneath the waves. By
Steve Gilliard |
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Click Here for Live Sex
Posted Wed Jun 13 14:24:20 2001 by sbaldwin |
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Dotcom Scoop
reports that a promotional party for Web site AllTrue.com went a bit
further than people bargained for when a couple of paid "actresses"
started copulating with patrons in a small, inflatable "Freak Box" that
was an integral part of the event. But Live Sex is nothing new in the
history of dotcom marketing - in fact, it's as integral a part of this
industry as HTML. By Leif Quakeman |
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Slaves to Passion, Freedom, Creativity
Posted Wed Jun 13 12:41:43 2001 by orooney |
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Look
closely at your shackles. Study each grimy link in the chain. You'll
want to remember everything about this time, with the exception of Pop
music, in the not-so-distant future. Burn the image in your brain as a
monument to a patient struggle. It will be both inspiring and humbling.
By Spartacus |
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Dotcom Scoop and NetSlaves Will Merge
Posted Tue Jun 12 16:09:35 2001 by orooney |
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Dotcom
Scoop and NetSlaves are getting hitched. While we're not exactly sure
what this combination means yet, to us it was a no-brainer. Dotcom Scoop has news and a great bulletin board and NetSlaves has the attitude and the analysis. By The Editors
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Employment 2001
Posted Tue Jun 12 02:28:15 2001 by orooney |
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The
reality is that a lot of former dotcom employees
are unhireable. Why? For one thing, they don't have the skills to do
real IT work. Simply put, unless you can code without Dreamweaver help
or actually have a sales record, you are not going to make the cut in a
new company. Dotcoms had miserable hiring records and placed too many
untrained people in jobs where they needed people with education. If
they want real IT jobs, they better get real IT skills, which means
going back to school. By Steve Gilliard |
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STFU: With Cheese Whiz
Posted Mon Jun 11 08:52:48 2001 by orooney |
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Allen
Iverson, the city of Philadelphia, and everyone on the 76ers bandwagon,
it's time to STFU. (It's the NBA Finals, you know.) For Philly fans,
this is one of those "we hate L.A." things. There are a lot of reasons
to hate L.A (traffic, better pace of living, they are sentenced to live
in Philadelphia), but don't hate us because our basketball team is
better. (This isn't tech-focused, but hey, it's my column, and I get to
tell anyone I want to STFU.) By Splat |
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America the Low
Posted Sun Jun 10 17:45:58 2001 by orooney |
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Let's
face reality: American culture is crude, has been crude and will always
be crude. If given a choice, most Americans would rather be Al Bundy
than Fraiser Crane. We lie around our collective apartments, fart,
drink beer and watch sports. Or if we're women, we generally tend to
favor Julia Roberts, ice cream and Oprah. By Steve Gilliard |
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The Death of Suck and Feed
Posted Fri Jun 8 20:33:23 2001 by sbaldwin |
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It's all over the Web now - Suck and Feed are dead. These two content pioneers - and their parent company, Automatic Media,
fell victim today to the same virtual blight that's been killing strong
content trees for years - "an inability to secure additional
financing." By Steve Baldwin |
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Salon Revisited
Posted Thu Jun 7 22:19:50 2001 by sbaldwin
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While praising Salon has been nearly reflexive among online
journalists, few have ever wondered why the company had failed to gain
widespread acceptance. There are conclusions which could be drawn, some
comforting, some disturbing, but few voiced in public. By Steve Gilliard |
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Has the Dotbomb Blown Your Relationships?
Posted Thu Jun 7 00:13:04 2001 by orooney
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guy I know was served divorce papers once his wife figured out that his
company was going under. Another got the boot from his fiancee for
similar reasons. And still more people I know are in very rocky
situations because they can't find jobs. What about you? By Bill Lessard |
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Coping with Layoffs
Posted Wed Jun 6 23:13:55 2001 by orooney
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Layoffs
always have and always will suck. Having been in tech a while, I've
seen people who weren't making it just disappear one day. More recently
I survived a round of dot-com style layoffs that hit the entire
company. Management moans how unpleasant they find the task, and some
of it is sincere. Still, for those of us thrown onto the street and
those left standing, this is a gut-wrenching, socially awkward, and
stressful ordeal. By Brave Sir Robin
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Top 10 Reasons to Stop Reading FC
Posted Tue Jun 5 03:41:53 2001 by orooney
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| Dot-bomb
maggots have infuriated me for some time. They
feast on the corpse of our industry. Once the dust settles on this
revolution I think we'll all be proud to have contributed to it. (Editor's Note: We have nothing against Phil or FC, so don't kill the messenger.)
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Summer Fun (Sans Funding)
Posted Tue Jun 5 03:10:48 2001 by orooney
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| Summer's
almost here and despite a grim winter and spring, things might be
looking up. Even if you aren't working, it's not like you have eat pork
rinds and watch Springer all day long. You can get out, enjoy the day,
and still look for work. So let's stop chronicling failure for a day
and think of the fun available this summer for the economically
challenged. By Steve Gilliard |
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Intelligence Impedes Success
Posted Mon Jun 4 05:16:23 2001 by orooney
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can intelligence be an impediment to success? I've been thinking on
this conundrum for some time. This is indicative of the problem.
Intelligent people think, think, think. And thinking is often a waste
of time. Successful people don't waste much time thinking. By Dennis
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Last Man Standing (After Three Layoffs)
Posted Mon Jun 4 05:04:08 2001 by orooney
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rounds of layoffs, and I'm still standing. I thought of writing after
the second (and still largest) round of layoffs at the small and
getting smaller dot.com startup I've been working with since leaving
the stable library world I had worked in about a year ago. By Blake |
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The American Way of Work
Posted Sun Jun 3 12:36:22 2001 by sbaldwin
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Americans are stupid when it comes to work. We work harder, longer and
get less than most anyone else in the developed world. Fourteen days of
vacation, 10 days sick leave, a fight to take family leave. Nowhere
else in the Western World are there as many poor,uninsured people,
schools filled with the poorly educated, and a collapsing
infrastructure. By Steve Gilliard |
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23 Toxic Internet Business Myths
Posted Thu May 24 16:30:48 2001 by sbaldwin |
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Was the Internet built for bankers and brokers, or for rugged individuals? Is the Open Source movement communistic or capitalistic? Is Entrepreneurism an instinct or something that can be taught in business school? Dr. Elliot McGucken unpacks 24 dangerously toxic Internet Business Myths.
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I Was Fired With No Warning at All
Posted Thu May 24 16:00:35 2001 by sbaldwin |
I was recently laid off from a tech company in Augusta, Maine. My job was a Microsoft Internet customer service rep. I went in on my day off to pick up my paycheck and the floor was like the twilght zone. There was no one there! By Anon.
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What Should My Starving, Broke-Ass Eat?
Posted Thu May 24 05:19:09 2001 by orooney |
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Let me cut to the chase: I'm broke, I'm hungry, and I really can't cook. I've been waiting, and waiting, and waiting some more for a freelance check. I've had as much peanut butter as I can stand. Balogna, turkey breast, and plastic provolone are totally played out. And if I eat another egg, I'm going to turn into a feckin' chicken. Any ideas for cheap subsistence foods that don't require much (which is to say, no) preparation would be greatly appreciated. By Bill Lessard
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Jim Morrison, Dotcom CEO
Posted Wed May 23 03:37:24 2001 by orooney
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Jim Morrison would've made a great Net CEO. He had the looks, he was pretentious, and most importantly, he knew how to bullshit the media. Following is a fictional account of this thesis, cooked up the other night while Baldwin and I were tossing a few back. Who says we don't have a sense of humor? By Bill Lessard. |
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Pathologies and Policies of Time: Part I
Posted Wed May 23 02:10:41 2001 by orooney
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Time is our orientation to the experience of change. In addition to our use of clock time we all have a broader sense of temporality - an awareness of flow and transcience beginnings and endings durations and phase length periodicity with amplitude tempo, speed, acceleration and deceleration the cycle of birth, maturation, decline, death and decay - as well as rebirth, seasonality and cyclical return. By Brian Davey. |
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Kaycee Nicole Rests in Pieces
Posted Tue May 22 16:56:09 2001 by sbaldwin
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Kaycee Nicole Swenson is one of the most controversial women on the
Net right now - and she's not even a real person. Several people swear
they exchanged e-mails, phone calls and IMs with someone claiming to be
a dying 19-year-old girl. Various Web pages popped up in her honor.
A crowd of readers opened her online diary every day to learn more
about her valiant struggle with leukemia - or so they thought. By Chris Stamper. |
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Is EVERYBODY on Meds? (How Anti-Depressants Are Turning Us All Into Robots)
Posted Mon May 21 03:29:30 2001 by orooney
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| Perhaps it's the circles I travel in, but a lot of people I know are on anti-depressants. Could someone tell me what the deal is? Are people that truly depressed, or is it the fact that drug companies are marketing these things like Pepsi and "healthcare providers" are more than willing to get that little commission? I suspect the latter. By Bill Lessard. |
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The Universe Is a Dirt Devil: Reflections on the End of the Millennium
Posted Sun May 20 22:37:10 2001 by orooney
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| It was a midnight flight from Austin, a few days before the end of 1999, a moon on the wing, and, having downed a glass of wine in my window seat, I looked out the window at the clouds below, the stars above, and started nodding and dreaming about the universe and the end of the millen…milleni---you know---the M-word. (I came to hate that word, the M-word. The only other m-word that comes to mind with so many damned duplicate letters is Mississippi). By T.W. Croft. |
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Brill Kills Inside.com By Shipping its Content to Siberia
Posted Thu May 17 19:26:11 2001 by sbaldwin
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When Inside.com merged with Brill's Content and Primedia, there was a feeling that this was not the happiest of marriages. Like a princess forced to marry an older, uglier king, Inside brought more to Brill's Content than vice versa. What no one expected is that Primedia would allow Brill to destroy Inside on a whim, while its founders stood helplessly by. By Steve Gilliard. |
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Shut The Feck Up: Rock-Climbing Unemployed Dotcommers
Posted Thu May 17 03:55:55 2001 by orooney
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| While the media paints a picture that every goateed former 'net project manager and biz-dev huckster lives in Fantasyland and had millions stashed away from the stock options, here's the reality: most of us are working, searching for a new job, recovering, or trying to do something other than "wondering what went wrong" and getting in-touch with ourselves. By Splat. |
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Startup.com: A Movie for Masochists
Posted Wed May 16 01:26:32 2001 by orooney
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| I had nothing better to do. The ticket was free. And it was an opportunity to hang out with some folks I hadn't seen in a while. So, there I was waiting on line to check out
Startup.com- a good movie, but one I don't recommend to the desperate and depressed. By Bill Lessard. |
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Buddy, Can You Spare an Aeron?
Posted Wed May 9 01:48:39 2001 by sbaldwin |
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Who wants to give me an Aeron chair? I'll even pay $50 for one. Put it in my home office so I can have it as a trophy, like my ESPN.com football and my Pets.com sock puppet. The $799 Herman Miller Aeron is to 1990s startup companies what the $7,622 coffee maker and the $640 toilet seats are to the U.S. military: a symbol of bad management and wasteful spending. By Chris Stamper.
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The Boykin Factor (The Real Reason Responsible for the Dotcom Crash of 2000-2001)
Posted Tue May 8 12:46:11 2001 by sbaldwin |
If you want to know what really happened that caused the evaporation of $4 trillion from the NASDAQ and other markets, let me tell you a little story about Boykin Baker, a former classmate in high school. By Tom Croft.
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Dear Ol' Dad and "The Graduate" Re-Made
Posted Mon May 7 12:19:14 2001 by orooney |
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I saw "The Graduate" for the first time in my life only a few years ago; I had, at 36, no real connection to that time, so watching it was low on the priority list. For those of my age now (and younger) at that time, it was apparently a memorable film. Some of it seemed outdated, and I prefer The Lemonheads' version of "Mrs. Robinson" to the original, but the scene that grabbed me in a subtle but very deep way was the "one word for you" scene. And that word? Plastic. By tHEdISSENTER.
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How to Read a 10Q: Agency.com
Posted Mon May 7 01:11:19 2001 by sbaldwin |
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The company, unlike many others, is in a position to be sold or merged, because its cumulative debt is actually controllable. It is a solvable problem because it is within the range of eventual profitability. By Steve Gilliard.
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STFU: Stephan Paternot
Posted Sun May 6 09:54:16 2001 by orooney |
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The issue isn't so much that both Paternot and Krizelman really didn't know what they were getting into when they found themselves the focus of the red-hot Internet stock craze. The issue is that Paternot actually said something to a reporter. Anything he said was going to illustrate that he wasn't a rocket scientist (he and Krizelman are probably two of the luckiest SOBs on the planet, so lucky to meet Oprah during their stardom and all), but commenting on stock price? By Splat.
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Workers and the New Deal
Posted Sat May 5 16:22:15 2001 by sbaldwin |
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It is not widely known that all the gains people assume for granted in the workplace, union or non-union, come from the union struggles of the 1930's. None of these rights were granted. Even today, workers do not get these rights autonomously. Employers do not extend them in most workplaces, especially in the service sector. But it was the unions which established what the baseline of what a job would be, which included regular work hours and benefits beyond salary. By Steve Gilliard.
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How to Read a 10Q: TheGlobe
Posted Fri May 4 17:21:45 2001 by sbaldwin |
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TheGlobe was always a second, maybe third-tier company, competing with better run, smarter companies along the way who knew exactly when to "flip" a tech startup. By going public instead, theglobe foisted itself upon a public all too willing to pay a 600% premium for its stock on IPO Day. Today, however, a close reading of theglobe's 10Q yields a peculiar story of inexperience, Silicon Alley gamesmanship, greed, and ultimately, a -$273 million bottom line. By Steve Gilliard.
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You, Social Security and the Stock Market
Posted Thu May 3 21:36:14 2001 by sbaldwin |
After reading enough 10Q's, S-1's, 10-K's and Chapter 11 filings, one would think that someone in the federal government might do the same before recommending that any portion of social security funds be sunk into the federal government. By Steve Gilliard.
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Razorfish Founders Flounder
Posted Thu May 3 14:16:03 2001 by sbaldwin |
According to the New York Times, the founders of Web consultancy Razorfish are stepping down today, to focus on an "arts-related Web site". Reading Steve Gilliard's Razorfish 10Q analysis will tell you all you need to know about why this happened.
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How to Read a 10Q: LoudCloud
Posted Thu May 3 12:12:03 2001 by sbaldwin |
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We are a high falutin' Web hostin' kind of company. You will pay us a lot of money to use our software, which seems to have had its genesis in technologies Netscape was using in 1996. We want you to contract out your Web hosting needs and rely on us. Did we say we were based in California? Did we say our CEO has no real experience in business, unless you count hype? Oh, we didn't? Sorry. By Steve Gilliard.
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More Vintage Stupidity: =JUDGECAL'S= "High Weirdness"
Posted Thu May 3 11:01:18 2001 by orooney |
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Researching the Pseudo chapter of the second NetSlaves book, I turned up the archive of one of Pseudo's most infamous shows - =JUDGECAL'S= High Weirdness, a program that could be best described as Wayne's World meets the early 90s East Village on the way to having holes drilled in your skull. Unbelievable, boys and girls. By Bill Lessard
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Jerry Curtis Has Been in the Sun (Choosing Manual Labor Over Netslavery)
Posted Wed May 2 22:52:33 2001 by sbaldwin |
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Jerry Curtis has neen in the sun. A lot. He laughs when asked how much time he spends in the sun. His teeth seem whiter against his sunburned face. "Oh, say ten, twelve hours a day. Six days a week." Jerry spends so much time in the sun because he makes eight dollars and fifty cents an hour loading and unloading delivery trucks for a wholesale greenhouse. A year ago he worked in a temperature-controlled office, sixty floors up, making three hundred thousand dollars (U.S.) a year, plus stock options, and a quarterly percentage bonus. By James C. Hess.
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I Didn't Think It Could Happen to Me
Posted Wed May 2 11:32:34 2001 by sbaldwin |
I had a great 9.5 years in the United States Air Force, when I decided to get out and do what I really love, which is to work with computers and Web design. I worked for a month with a small computer company in Northern Maine and then bailed for a "better" job with an insurance company a few miles south. By Matt Jolly.
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Would You Pay $995.00 to Listen to Candace Carpenter?
Posted Tue May 1 22:06:21 2001 by sbaldwin |
Think that the Great Web Wipeout of 2000-01 destroyed the Digirati? Think again - these people aren't going away - they're just repositioning themselves as "Internet Survivors". Check out the next big roadshow in New York - Garage.com's "Bootcamp for Startups." Here, the faithful will pay nearly $1,000 to hear Candace Carpenter, StarMedia's Steve Heller, and other high-rollers wax prolific about "the future of the future". Let's hope it ain't like the recent past. By Steve Baldwin.
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I Wanted to Cry (After Receiving a 2 Percent Raise)
Posted Tue May 1 09:50:59 2001 by sbaldwin |
I wanted to cry. I'm a man, damn it! I haven?t cried in three years. But today was different, because I had disillusioned myself into thinking that I was owed something by my company. By Chi Lambda.
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Breakfast with Todd and Steph
Posted Tue May 1 07:27:57 2001 by orooney |
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Steve Baldwin, being the Internet's foremost historian of cyber-rot, has unearthed a true gem - a forgotten stream of an October 1997 VC Breakfast featuring theglobe.com's Stephan Paternot and Todd Krizelman in their NYC debut, hosted by our favorite tech journalist, Jason McCabe Calicanis. By NetSlaves.
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Interview: Peter Lewis of LaborNET
Posted Tue May 1 06:04:44 2001 by orooney |
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Peter Lewis is one of the forces behind LaborNET, an Australian Workers' portal. Peter talks about the current efforts of LaborNET, and answers some dumb questions from us about what it's like to live and work in a country that isn't ruled by Darwinian Capitalism.
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How to Read a 10Q: CMGI
Posted Mon Apr 30 15:03:56 2001 by sbaldwin
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CMGI has lost an astronomical amount of money. You would have to lose two stealth bombers in a day to lose this kind of money as quickly. Which is the fact that so many in the media gloss over. They say, "CMGI has lost $3.79 Billion" as if that figure means nothing. Weatherell paid himself a bonus nearly equal to his salary, when the company's properties were losing money like drunk sailors in Vegas. By Steve Gilliard.
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The Media, Money, and You
Posted Mon Apr 30 09:53:56 2001 by sbaldwin
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Ok, so we're in the middle of this big 10Q series and you're probably wondering why they matter so much. You may be wondering why these guys on this website are pointing out stuff the big news sites have not. By Steve Gilliard.
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Unemployment Journal XII: My "Work Orientation" Session, The Spilt Latte, Oppression
Posted Mon Apr 30 05:19:57 2001 by orooney
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| Married guys with kids get special privileges in the work world. Somehow, their situation is seen as more real.
It's not.If you have a wife and kids, don't work for a dot-com. I have two (?2?) cats to feed and a plethora of health, beauty and spiritual needs that require cash. Take
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War Is Hell; This Is Heck
Posted Sun Apr 29 08:49:41 2001 by orooney
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| In the brilliant opening scene of "Patton", George C. Scott as the volatile and enigmatic general implores his troops to achieve a greater glory lest they have the ultimate
dishonor: telling their grandchildren that, during the Great War, their defining moment was "shovelling shit in Louisiana". By tHEdISSENTER. |
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How to Read a 10Q: Webvan
Posted Sat Apr 28 17:07:06 2001 by sbaldwin
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This company has lost over $600m proving that building a new, national chain of full-service/home delivery supermarkets will probably not work. Only a few food chains have even attempted it and they serve prepared goods only. Even a casual examination would have shown that there are few national chains and no national supermarket chains. How Borders thought he would invent a new reality is beyond me. By Steve Gilliard.
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The "Bridge to the Bahamas"
Posted Sat Apr 28 15:56:29 2001 by sbaldwin
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Sometimes when the world is serious and crazy, it is good to remember when I was young and crazier. When I convinced a southern police officer I had driven across the "Bridge to the Bahamas." A weekend story by TW Croft.
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How to Read a 10Q: Ask Jeeves
Posted Fri Apr 27 11:12:58 2001 by sbaldwin
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Ask Jeeves seems to have had a very generous compensation package for their senior execs, while losing exponential amounts of money. One has to wonder if the company's generous payments were warranted given the company's financial condition. By Steve Gilliard.
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A Non-Dysfunctional Dot-Com?
Posted Thu Apr 26 19:30:19 2001 by sbaldwin
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We all hear about the numerous dot-com failures, here?s an example of a company that?s been making money from month one without ONE PENNY OF VC FUNDING. Z57 builds and hosts web sites for small businesses, focusing on Real Estate and Insurance offices, they are currently hosting 5000+ web sites. By Bill Volk. |
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The Cycle Goes Round and Round
Posted Thu Apr 26 12:35:32 2001 by sbaldwin
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Hold on to your seat, folks: the lay-offs are not over. While the economists sit back, pick their teeth, and pronounce judgment on the situation and the media takes the sting out of the bad news (or exalts in it - it depends if they're on the receiving end or not), the truth is we all have a few more months to wait before the job market becomes healthy once again. We're still in the black zone, and no amount of blathering on the topic by our so-called Monkey in Chief is going to turn the clock back to 1998. Nothing is going to bring back the IPO bonanza of the late 90's. The great boom is over, and the fallout is still falling out. By Emily Dresner-Thornber |
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Ten Questions I Gotta Ask (Chris Stamper Seeks Info on TheGlobe.com, Reconditioned Flat Screen Displays, and MaryRomantic)
Posted Thu Apr 26 02:47:57 2001 by sbaldwin
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You're all smart people -- and there's a bunch of things out there I'm wondering about, including the delisting of The Globe, the Embezzling Cisco VP, refurbished flat screen monitors, FuckedCompany, Howard Rheingold, and the odds that the infamous Maryromantic will ever find a true soulmate. So help me out and post some answers! By Chris Stamper
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Predicting Failure (How to Tell When The Company You Work For is Doomed)
Posted Thu Apr 26 02:31:21 2001 by sbaldwin
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An irate letter came across our desk today. Clearly the author was less than pleased at my reporting on her company. After all, if someone was telling you that you would be unemployed and your last ditch plan was going to fail badly how would you take it? By Steve Gilliard. |
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A Million Person March I'd Like To See
Posted Wed Apr 25 16:15:16 2001 by sbaldwin
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We've had them before, the Million ______ (fill in the blank) March on Washington. Their effectiveness is debatable. What is impressive though is the very fact that, on numerous occasions, Americans have felt the obligation to go to Washington en masse to demonstrate to Congress that they have grievances that are not effectively being addressed. And, of course, the press spins the stories whichever way suits them. What I'd like to see is the Million Person Silent March. There is nothing more ominous than a LOT of silent people staring at you. By Watcher. |
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Interview: Bill Griffith, Creator of Zippy the Pinhead
Posted Wed Apr 25 03:29:15 2001 by orooney
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| Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead, unrecognized icon for Internet gurus everywhere, has just published a full set of Zippy Quarterlies
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How to Read a 10Q: Juno
Posted Tue Apr 24 21:18:53 2001 by sbaldwin
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According to Dotcompoop and Fecked Company, Juno may be filing for Chapter 11 protection after laying off 120 people. Juno lost $131 million last year. They would have to make $107m this year to reduce their losses from $131m to $25m. This may be a difficult task. By Steve Gilliard. |
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20 Rules for Surviving the Post Dot-Com Job Market
Posted Tue Apr 24 17:44:34 2001 by sbaldwin
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Think all we do is complain, whine, and scream "j'accuse" on this site? Yeah, we do our share of angst-raising, but from time to time we also try to arm you with productive, proactive, nuts-and-bolts advice to ward off the cyber-exploiters. By Gordon Levy. |
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60-Hour Work Weeks/$50K per Year = Corporate Wage Slavery?
Posted Tue Apr 24 12:56:00 2001 by sbaldwin
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I have witnessed a culture that is priding itself on working ever more hours for very unclear returns. This is especially true in the tech sector. Many smart individuals (young mostly) think they are making decent money ($50,000 or more per year), but are boasting about the number of hours they put in. Typically, they do it for vague notions of a promotion or more money or just to keep up. In reality, they are devaluing themselves. By Watcher.
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How to Read a 10Q: Salon
Posted Fri Apr 20 08:44:49 2001 by sbaldwin
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| By looking at a variety of financial statements, it is clear that no subscription plan is likely to save the company. They have lost nearly $60M in six years and continue to burn almost $1.8m a month, if not more. Yet, this has taken place despite ongoing layoffs, reduction in content and increased advertising. None of which appears to have worked. By Steve Gilliard |
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Greetings, Members of the Press!
Posted Tue Apr 24 03:29:48 2001 by orooney
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According to our log files, we've had a lot of visits from you journos out there in the last 24 hours. But no actual postings - you normally verbose media types have been as silent as a 3 AM test-pattern. Why haven't you posted? Have you decided that talking to us and the people who frequent this site - the IT grunts in the IT trenches - would be a waste of your time? Hey, maybe what we have to say here is beneath you. Maybe we're too far off the mainstream radar screen to matter. But it's still nice to know that you've been by, perhaps mumbling curses under your breath as you sift through this site's content. By Bill Lessard. |
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Sorting Though The Mess at Hale House
Posted Tue Apr 24 03:34:31 2001 by sbaldwin
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In the end, journalists serve a public function, which is to make sure someone looks at the failures and successes of a society and place them in order. The job is not to be liked or make sure that only the lucky, rich and popular have their say. Whether you run a charity or a public company, leadership is important. Following not only the law, but accepted practices are critical. It isn't only the IT companies we're looking at which fail to do this. By Steve Gilliard |
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How to Read a 10Q: Razorfish
Posted Mon Apr 23 13:44:47 2001 by sbaldwin
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The idea of Web consultancies is a shaky one, probably consigned to the dustbin of business history. Clearly, these companies are failing badly. They grew too quickly, without any kind of planning or thoughts of long range stability. Companies grow slowly because it takes time to work out the process of running a company. You grow too quickly, with too much money, and bad things happen. Like 13 class action suits combined into one large class. By Steve Gilliard.
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Shut The Feck Up: Trans Union
Posted Mon Apr 23 12:45:49 2001 by sbaldwin
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Lost amongst the other items that make up tech news these days was a small article about how Trans Union, one of the big bad credit agencies, lost a court decision
to sell your name, my name, and thousands of other names of people who have too much or too little credit to spammers because Trans Union doesn't make enough money anyway to keep itself afloat. By Splat. |
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Exploring Public Documents (A Forensic Analysis of Failed Internet Companies)
Posted Sun Apr 22 15:15:56 2001 by sbaldwin
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OK, we're in the middle of a mammoth project that uses public documents to explore the hidden side of IT companies. We have a few suspects which haven't been covered so far but we, well, I want to explain what the CIA calls "methods and sources." By Steve Gilliard.
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For a While There, I Was Puzzled
Posted Sun Apr 22 00:41:12 2001 by sbaldwin
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We accepted jobs with companies whose business plan consisted of "throw up a site then make an IPO." We stayed until ten o'clock at night when we should have gone home at five. We thought Nerf guns and foosball tables and beer belonged in the workplace. We saw the lack of professionalism, the corruption. We plunged in anyway. At last, I am starting to understand why. By Alexandra R. Bush. |
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I Feel Sorry For You (An Open Letter to America Posted by an Expatriate in Hungary)
Posted Sat Apr 21 18:45:10 2001 by sbaldwin
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You come here and complain bitterly about the VCs, the hustlers, the HR people from Hell, the fill-in-the-blank. Know what? It's been like that since Jesus was a pup, so you don't have that market cornered. I have been fired from jobs for my religion. I have been fired from jobs for no good reason. Yet I have never complained about it and don't see how any of this is cathartic to you in the least. All I see that this accomplishes is legitimizing your whiny-assed behavior and giving you excuses for not behaving. By Steven Watsky. |
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My Air Conditioner, My Netslave (Wild Dreams from the House of Tomorrow)
Posted Fri Apr 20 09:22:56 2001 by sbaldwin
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Did you ever have the urge to check the temperature in your refrigerator with your cell phone while sitting in traffic? Or crank up your microwave for a few minutes from your office computer? Or use your PDA to turn on your rice cooker? That's what we're talking about: wild dreams about The House of Tomorrow that use the Internet to do things people never really wanted. By Chris Stamper |
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A Personal Theory of Catastrophe (Life, Death, and Computers in a Mad, End-of-the-World Embrace Aboard the Thantos Express)
Posted Fri Apr 20 09:10:51 2001 by sbaldwin
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Silicon Valley was birthed from a Doomsday Machine at the center of the Cold War. Slacker logic built on Defense Department budgets, and CIA acid sessions. As the years ticked on, markets were wound tighter to the box. Men with power ties and bright suspenders charted Third World misery and saw profit where their predecessors had been deterred. Shouted into precariously balanced telephones as their hands, distractedly signaling an indecipherable semaphore, performed an obscure ritual whose true nature was known only to Moloch. By Warren Leming. |
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Springtime For Jeff Bezos and Amazon? (Today, Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom Wouldn't Have Produced a Play: They'd Have Produced an Entertainment Portal)
Posted Thu Apr 19 16:02:13 2001 by sbaldwin
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Obviously, "The Producers" has nothing to do with dotcom reality. Seeing as how Max Bilaystock was in his late fifties, he would have been replaced almost immediately by a 23-year-old MBA with capped teeth and a $400 haircut. He and Leo wouldn't have produced a play: they would have produced a whole entertainment site full of projects that were well-hyped but amazingly never saw release. Most importantly, they never would have gone to jail for their greed: they would have been allowed to cash in their stocks just before the production went under, keep the money, and receive book and magazine offers on how to be an Internet genius. By Paul T. Riddell. |
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My Year With the Lords of Flies (A Memoir of Working at a Dotcom Startup Without Adult Supervision)
Posted Thu Apr 19 13:07:17 2001 by sbaldwin
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"The Company is having across the board cut backs. We have cut you off from the network. You have one hour to pack your personal items and leave the building." It was Monday, February 19 - Presidents Day. I arrived at the office at 8:00 am for our weekly Sales Meeting. Things were eerily quiet that day. We got an e-mail announcing that there would be an all-company meeting at 5:00 pm. By Deborah A. Brody. |
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How to Read a 10Q: IVillage
Posted Thu Apr 19 11:16:42 2001 by sbaldwin
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IVillage has lost $384.3 million since it began operation in 1995. It has lost $351 million of that sum since 1998. This is the largest single loss of any dotcom and could go higher. Since they are a public company, we can analyze how they lost this money. The magic of SEC filings is that they are intensely detailed. While not telling the whole story, what they do show is pretty fascinating. By Steve Gilliard. |
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Vocational Darwinism and the Decline of the Technical Recruiter
Posted Wed Apr 18 21:39:23 2001 by sbaldwin
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For a time, technical recruiting was a gravy job for a business or marketing major drawn by the promises of making $150 per hour or more in commissions, and this was catnip to dolt yuppies who gained nothing from college besides alcoholism and syphilis. These days, the newly dot-unemployed aren't getting phone calls unless they have skills still in demand by real companies. By Paul T. Riddell. |
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Has Technology Innovation Hit a "Brick Wall"?
Posted Wed Apr 18 14:38:33 2001 by sbaldwin
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When any new technology emerges, it first escapes from the university and corporate research center and takes root in the wild. The technology is promising, and the demand increases. With an increasing demand, funding for improvements can easily be secured. The stream of improvements generates a short replacement cycle, and therefore a fast growing market for the technology is created. This fast growing market is similar to the double digit growth in the information technology during the last 10 years. But then, the technology hits a brick wall. By Niels Tijssen. |
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Netslaves, Meet Wage Slaves (Why the U.S. Educational System is a Royal Joke)
Posted Tue Apr 17 20:49:42 2001 by sbaldwin
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Our society is headed straight for a social nightmare that no amount of new economy rhetoric or reality can fix: public school fallout. Our educational system is a royal joke that leaves millions upon millions unprepared for the real world. Every year our kids' test scores drown in mediocrity, even with massive efforts to get youngsters to perform better. A core of smart kids at the top is getting smarter, while the broad mass flatlines and the struggling get worse. By Chris Stamper. |
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NetSlave Auction: Bill Lessard for Sale
Posted Tue Apr 17 03:36:39 2001 by orooney
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| All my freelance gigs have dried up, and I need money. Badly. If any of you out there have anything I could do, please let me know. I'm desperate. This is not a joke. Also, anyone who wants their resume posted up here should e-mail it to us. By Bill Lessard. |
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The CEO of My First Startup Was My Brother
Posted Tue Apr 17 14:25:40 2001 by sbaldwin
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I went in full of plans, hopes and dreams just like the rest of us poor suckers. I loved the Net. I'd been using it for 4 years before he hired me. I didn't get the job because I was the CEO's little sister but because he knew I would do good work on the cheap. He liked that word "cheap". What can I say? I loved him. I wanted him to do well and I really believed the crap about how the Net would change the world. By Ytbaby |
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The Art of Memory and the Internet
Posted Wed Apr 18 13:06:46 2001 by sbaldwin
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I was reading a series of lame remembrances of Joey Ramone in Salon today and it pissed me off. I met the guy in the mid-80's, before he got sober, and it would tell you nothing about me except I knew who he was and thus had good taste in music. Instead of talking to the people who actually knew the guy, or could really define his role in music, they got stories we could have collected. By Steve Gilliard. |
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Where Did the Money Go?
Posted Tue Apr 17 13:51:26 2001 by sbaldwin
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A "satirical" website posted a story recently where they asked where did the trillions, that's right, trillions, with a T, have gone. Sunk into companies big and small, at least three trillion, with a T, is gone. Where did all that money go? By Steve Gilliard. |
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April 15th - A Taxpayer's Lament
Posted Mon Apr 16 14:23:31 2001 by sbaldwin
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It's April 15th, and I'm angry. Not so much the money, but the principle of the thing. It's been said that if someone makes the aforementioned claim, that it's really the money. To put the issue to rest, let me say that I got a $1300 refund and I'm still angry. By Anonymous Taxpayer.
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Joey Ramone: Working Class Hero
Posted Mon Apr 16 04:10:32 2001 by sbaldwin
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I'm not going to tell you that Joey and I hung out, or we were the best of friends. He just came in to do a few harmony backups - right around now - 2 or 3 in the morning. He didn't say a lot to me, just came in, stood behind a Neumann U87, did his overdubs, hung around for about an hour, and left. But he was completely cool - courteous, friendly, and deeply aware that a recording studio was a working environment, not a frat house, or an opium den, or a wall of mirrors for infinite ego-projection. In other words, he was a pro. By Steve Baldwin.
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Unemployment Journal XI: Sims Tragedy, New Words, New Pornographers
Posted Sun Apr 15 20:52:32 2001 by orooney
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| I'm not interested in the default living conditions of the Sim Worldscape. I want a clean slate, a blank plate, a canvas I can call my own. I knock down homes and evict Sims. In the middle of the night I do this, and I can hear the glass shatter. By Ebitch. |
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It's All About... the Pens (Vainly Hunting for Quality Schwag at the Tech Industry's Ghostly Trade Shows)
Posted Sat Apr 14 22:43:18 2001 by orooney
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| I remember the last trade show I attended before The Fall From Grace (aka The Dot.Boom); while typical of most IT geek shows (e.g. delicious marketing babes with no clue about what the product did beyond that which they had carefully and painfully memorized like B-grade movie starlets, waiting for their "break"), this one was surreal in hindsight. By tHE dISSENTER. |
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The Shit I Have Been Through and Why This Site Can't Shut Down: A Real-Life Netslave's Response
Posted Sat Apr 14 14:39:52 2001 by sbaldwin
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Listen, I love the Web, I loved it from the moment I saw it in a museum exhibition when I was 15 in the year 1989. I loved it again in 1994, when I got my first email, and spent hours of my life in the computer lab. I loved it through my 107714.151@xxxx.com account to when I graduated from university and I joined a startup. I use it to communicate with my friends and my family who live far away, I use it to read articles I can't get anywhere else, and I use it to have access to new music. I use it to live my life. And now that I am 27, I use it for something more: I use it to make a living. By Ms. Yan Sham-Shackleton. |
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Workplace Horror, Vietnam-Style
Posted Fri Apr 13 22:39:10 2001 by sbaldwin
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In a news conference on March 27, 2001 Attorney General John Ashcroft showed himself to be well aware of the exploitation of immigrant workers that had given rise to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000
. He made it clear that such exploitation would not be tolerated. One of the instances of exploitation that the Attorney General is pursuing concerns Vietnamese ?guest workers? who had been lured to American Samoa, a U.S. territory, with promises of excellent pay and good working conditions. They were met with sporadic or withheld pay, dreadful living and working conditions, and retaliation, including severe physical beatings, By Carl R. Baldwin. |
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A Ballbreaking Act of Astounding Ego
Posted Fri Apr 13 20:59:36 2001 by steveg
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I have lost all patience for antics in the guise of being cute. Dave Eggers, author of an autobiography which will turn Jake Gyndenhaal or Joshua Jackson into a movie star, has made a practice of tormenting reporters who have the temerity to actually dare to ask him questions. By Steve Gilliard.
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Microsoft Sets Sights on MP3 Music Market
Posted Fri Apr 13 11:12:01 2001 by emily
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Microsoft has finally gotten around to dealing with MP3s. How are they going to do it? The same way they have crushed every other initiative in the last fifteen years: by creating their own proprietary format, building into the next release of Windows, and hindering the effectiveness of MP3s. By Emily Dresner-Thornber. |
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Shut the Feck Up: Faith Popcorn
Posted Thu Apr 12 22:43:20 2001 by orooney
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| In Faith Popcorn's Dictionary of the Future
, which she is preparing as part of her follow-up to EVEolution
, she forgot "STFU" (eSS-Tee-eff-you): An award given to those who seemingly don't have a clue just how full of crap they really are. By Splat. |
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Jesse Berst, We Hardly Knew Ye
Posted Thu Apr 12 19:42:42 2001 by sbaldwin
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I clicked my bookmark for ZD AnchorDesk
the other day and Jesse Berst was gone! The one guy I thought would be around forever was off the screen. The site was still there, but somebody else's picture was on the home page. My mind reeled. By Chris Stamper.
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Bill Gates: The Emperor of Rome
Posted Thu Apr 12 11:29:36 2001 by emily
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Microsoft Windows... what is it? Is it the core of an empire? Is it a religion? Is it a delusional nightmare dreamed up by corporate refugees of the immense dot-com crash? Or is it a strange post-Nietzschean thought experiment to prove, once and for all, that God is dead? By Emily Dresner-Thornber. |
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Can You Spell Capitulation? (How Bear Markets End)
Posted Wed Apr 11 23:17:00 2001 by sbaldwin
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Real capitulation in the Great Dot-Com Bust is when everybody stops caring. Instead of a big crash, I'm looking for a long, boring summer this year when not much happens except rehashes of what we already know. All the news is already old and tired. After all, how many rounds of layoffs in San Francisco can you read about before d?j? vu goes into overload? Aren't they going to run out of people to fire one day? By Chris Stamper. |
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The Technology Industry Apocalypse is Almost Over
Posted Wed Apr 11 22:17:17 2001 by steveg
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The whole dotcom boom is collapsing like Somoza's army in 1979. In ONE day, just one 24 hour period, Kozmo shut down, Yahoo is going to lay off people, while selling porn, Scient (or is it Viant, no Scient, not that either will be around by summer) is going to lay off 675 people. By Steve Gilliard.
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Interview: CorporateRefugees.com
Posted Wed Apr 11 20:13:43 2001 by sbaldwin
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Ruth Luban is a counseler who has been studying career burnout issues since 1988. Her Web site, corporaterefugees.com
, was launched to provide an electronic "safe haven for downsized, disilusioned, and displaced workers". In this interview with NetSlaves, Luban discusses her recent research, and provides pragmatic strategies for tech workers seeking to avoid being psychically scorched by Internet Career Burnout. By Steve Baldwin.
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Wake Up, Sleepyheads! (Sleep Deprivation and the New Economy)
Posted Tue Apr 10 22:51:08 2001 by sbaldwin
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| I want to talk about one of the most prevalent but least-discussed areas of netslavery: sleep deprivation. Not only did many of us lose our stock options, we lost a fortune in shut-eye. By Chris Stamper. |
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Graduating into a Soft Economy (The Class of 2001 Goes Back to the Drawing Board)
Posted Mon Apr 9 10:24:07 2001 by sbaldwin
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Well, this is it. After five long years of undergraduate work, I'm finally ready to launch that promising high-tech career that I've been lusting after since 1996. Wait a second. Where are the alcohol-fueled interview junkets? Where are all the corporate toys? Where are the high priced, high profile job offers? By Cathy Kerr.
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Will Work For Power (California Confronts Rolling Blackouts)
Posted Sun Apr 8 20:07:24 2001 by steveg
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A screed from an insurgent group calling itself "The Californians" reads: "America has engaged in some finger wagging lately because California doesn't have enough electricity to meet its needs. The rest of the country (including George W. Bush's energy secretary Spencer Abraham, who wants Californians to suffer through blackouts as justification for drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) seems to be just fine with letting Californians dangle in the breeze without enough power to meet their needs." By Steve Gilliard.
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Ten Reasons to Keep the Site Open
Posted Sat Apr 7 11:01:13 2001 by steveg
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I've made these arguments in private and now I'll make them in public. Forgive the collective grumpiness here, because we've had a really shitty few months and it can seem endless when you're in the middle of losing jobs and personal crises of various sorts. But I think there is plenty of reason to keep the site going.You are free to agree or disagree, but I'll make my case. By Steve Gilliard. |
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Top 10 Reasons We Should Close This Site Down
Posted Sat Apr 7 01:11:42 2001 by sbaldwin
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Let's not beat around the bush here. The Web is fecked, and so are you, and so are we. To respond to this dire situation, we present to you our Top 10 Reasons We Should Close This Site Down
- some of this is tongue-and-cheek, but most of it is drop-dead serious. By Steve Baldwin
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From the Files of Media News: The Goodbye Memo
Posted Fri Apr 6 00:04:10 2001 by steveg
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It seems the writer of this memo didn't like losing his job much. Who does? But which one of us would write to the boss and tell him what we think? Exactly what we thought. By Steve Gilliard. |
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The Active Medium (This Is Not TV)
Posted Thu Apr 5 01:37:09 2001 by steveg
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What constantly amazes me is when people are upset at the content of dynamic sites, stuff you can participate in. We run mostly items written by our small, hard working, unpaid staff, but we do accept submissions from other people. One day, we may even pay them. By Steve Gilliard. |
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The Failure of Broadband
Posted Wed Apr 4 20:36:53 2001 by orooney
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| In 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, broadband hype appeared in dozens of magazines. Comparisons between the
different types of broadband were run in ten million different eye-catching colors, and the names of the services were run in bright red letters fifty feet tall: DSL, Cable, ISDN, Satellite. Jumping on the broadband wagon early meant suffering for a little while, but also meant rolling naked in a Jacuzzi filled with hundreds two years down the line. By Emily Dresner-Thornber |
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Fallen Gods of the New Economy: New Music from the Geektones
Posted Mon Apr 2 21:00:31 2001 by mpXreview
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| With "the market evaporated and the dot-coms drying up like slugs on a sidewalk," the Geektones have written a dirgelike funeral song about the "apparent" death of the new economy. It's solemn, satirical, but not without heart. A review from mpXreview.com. |
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The New Dotcom Hipster, Part II
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