The Working Dog (It's All about
Boundaries): Companies, in a misguided attempt to make work
seem like home, have allowed people to bring dogs in. Now, I'm not
dog phobic, but I don't own and have never owned a dog, nor has
anyone in my family. My parents did, but they never brought them
into our home.
Godzilla Market Theory (More
Than Our Favorite Whipping Boys): The NASDAQ has crashed
and burned and been reborn. Yet, no one is asking a question which I
think is pretty critical: why were some of these stocks so high to
begin with?
Economic Apartheid in the
Valley (The 22 Bus Is Calling Us): According to the New York
Times, there is a bus stalking the night in Silicon Valley. The 22,
or the Rolling Hotel, goes from one end of the Valley to the other,
a moving flophouse for the working poor. Sleep for two hours, while
rolling past millionaires and the toys they collect, and do it
again.
Where the Hell's My
Money?: (Or: Why Initial Public Offerings Are a Sucker Bet).
C. Scott Ananian opened his e-mail one day to find an offer from Red
Hat -- the Commercial Linux company, to buy in on their IPO. Since
the IPO was being offered through the online broker E*Trade, all he
thought he had to do was send in the money (not easy for a grad
student) and claim his stake.
How Microsoft Lost
a Billion Dollars: Internet Case Study #1. This time around
NetSlave Media Assassin Steve Gilliard gives you the lowdown on the
billions Microsoft lost in its various failed New Media efforts from
MSN and Slate to MSNBC and Sidwalk -- money which would have drowned
a lesser company's balance sheet in a sea of red, but for the
software giant and DoJ posterboy for unfair business practices, it
was even less than a drop in the silicon bucket.
Spare the Net, Spoil the
Child? (AOL and Child Predators): In his most insightful and
important column to-date, NetSlave Media Assassin Steve Gilliard
points the finger at the true playground of online molestation --
America Online -- and offers parents helpful advice for protecting
their children from pedophiles. Patrick Naughton, this means you!
The Buzz Stops Here
(CEO Myths vs. Hard Truths): It was a yet another year of
Net bullshit, with CEOs spouting pretty nonsense and the media
taking notes. While our hype tolerance has gotten amazingly strong
as of late, a recent puff
piece in the New York Times sent us over the limit. In the
following column, Netslave Media Assassin Steve Gilliard picks the
article apart, pointing out its most egregious myths from "We're all
a family here." to "Ayn Rand is my hero."
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