Dotcom Boom

Is Content Still King? (The King is dead. Long live the King!)

David Wadler | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media


David Wadler

The growth of the ad market is insufficient to keep up with the incredible growth of content. Old media, new media, user-generated communities, and a litany of other online properties are competing for a finite pool of ad dollars.

How Far Down Is the Bottom?

Michael Wolff | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business


Michael Wolff

The basic economic operation becomes about anticipating -- and speculating on -- the depth of the bottom. (The hype that helped urged things up now urges them down.)

Too Big to Succeed

John Standerfer | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business


John Standerfer

What we don't appear to understand yet is that no amount of money, time or regulation can possibly resolve this problem while a few banks continue to hold the entire nation hostage.

Obama, CEO America

Michael Likosky | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics


Michael Likosky

Is President-elect Obama soon to become CEO America, leader of a land in which the public and private sectors cohere into one giant corporation?

Generational

JL Silverman | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business


JL Silverman

The corporate ladder has rearranged itself like the staircases at Hogwarts. Now, twenty year olds can make a fortune with the Internet -- YouTube, Facebook, Google.

A Geeky Side of Bush's Legacy that Must Be Overcome

Jaron Lanier | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics


Jaron Lanier

Part of the project of climbing out of the deep, deep pit George W. Bush tossed our nation into has a geeky quality. We need to learn to stop using computers to lie to ourselves.

WallStreet.com Doman Name Expected To Fetch $10 Mil At Auction

Financial Times | Ben Fenton | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Wall Street's value has risen ten-fold in the past eight years, even from the height of the dotcom boom. Or rather, the pulling power of the world's ...