New Economy

  • The chicken show

    The greatest dot-com loser story ever told: A refugee from the bubble seeks a job in Atlanta, and is humiliated. Repeatedly.
    By Andrew Grant February 12, 2003

  • Bring back the new economy!

    Neither Bush nor the Democrats have grasped how to get the country moving again: Spurring innovation back to boom-time heights.
    By Suneel Ratan November 18, 2002

  • How I destroyed the new economy

    Dot-com visionary David Wetherell could do no wrong -- until he started building a mansion on an ancient Indian burial ground.
    By John F.X. Sundman October 23, 2002

  • "The Long Boom" is back!

    Recession? What recession? A coauthor of 1999's infamously optimistic screed says the future is still bright.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski April 30, 2002

  • Dumb, dumber and theglobe.com

    A memoir by whiz kid turned dot-com refugee Stephan Paternot is as silly as the company he founded.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski August 22, 2001

  • Dept. of "Oops"

    After four years, heeere's "Wild at Start," a documentary celebrating visionary new-economy entrepreneurs!
    By Katharine Mieszkowski July 25, 2001

  • IM what IM

    As our sagging Internet company invented euphemisms for failure, Alice and I took refuge in instant messaging. She had a boyfriend but we couldn't stop.
    By Nathaniel Missildine June 29, 2001

  • Where have all the lap dancers gone?

    Sex workers are surviving the dot-com bust, but they too mourn the days of easy venture capital and IPO-inspired lust.
    By Laurel Rosen May 8, 2001

  • That's "Mistress Freelancer" to you

    When the market for her articles dried up, this tech hack became a dominatrix.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski April 13, 2001

  • We're all temps now

    The economic downturn is making life harder for independent contractors. But is having a staff job really any more secure?
    By Katharine Mieszkowski April 11, 2001

  • Who needs the new economy?

    Bush's bias toward industrial dinosaurs is strangling America's high-tech-driven growth.
    By Herman M. Schwartz and Aida A. Hozic March 16, 2001

  • Do you kick Yahoo?

    The rush to bury the Web leader prematurely is the latest sign of a manic-depressive marketplace.
    By Scott Rosenberg March 10, 2001

  • The age of overwork

    The author of "White-Collar Sweatshop" says that toiling in the new economy is no way to live.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski March 1, 2001

  • I can't get laid off

    When your company's a sinking ship, that pink slip starts looking more like a ticket to the good life.
    By Lori Cox February 26, 2001

  • The new slackers

    What goes around comes around -- laid-off dot-commers are discovering anew the joys of apathy.
    By Janelle Brown and Katharine Mieszkowski February 26, 2001

  • The scared-stiff workaholic

    Robert Reich's "The Future of Success" says we're too insecure to stop working.
    By Noam Scheiber February 12, 2001

  • How the ax falls

    Layoffs are never easy, but doing it the dot-com way is just plain dumb.
    By Salon Technology & Business staff January 25, 2001

  • Life on the verge of a dot-com breakdown

    We've got our résumés ready, savings in the bank and our fingers crossed.
    By Amanda Nielsen January 25, 2001

  • The day I killed my dot-com

    The dismal reality of layoffs can be just as hard on the person who wields the ax as it is on the employees who are fired.
    By Jennifer Jeffrey December 12, 2000

  • The art of innovation

    What Silicon Valley is trying to do now, Cézanne and Picasso achieved decades ago.
    By Colin Stewart November 28, 2000

  • Capitalism is dead. Long live capitalism!

    In his new book, Dinesh D'Souza argues that dot-com prosperity is just another beneficiary of the Reagan legacy.
    By J. Bonasia November 20, 2000

  • San Francisco to dot-com developers: No more

    Voters pass anti-growth measure Proposition L by a slim margin.
    By Andrew Leonard November 8, 2000

  • Enter the "yettie"

    The "young entrepreneurial technocrat" has arrived: Finally, Mouse Jockeys and Nerds Made Good have an acronym of their own.
    By Janelle Brown November 7, 2000

  • Is the Internet a bad, bad boy?

    San Francisco's anti-growth Proposition L is an unnecessarily harsh referendum on the merits of the new economy.
    By Damien Cave November 6, 2000

  • Clamping down on high-tech growth is good for high-tech

    San Francisco's anti-development Prop L will squeeze tech firms into a battle for survival. And nothing could be better for them.
    By Wagner James Au November 6, 2000
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