From Salon.com :: Red Herring is gone, and so is the boom it chronicled. But the magazine’s optimism wasn’t misplaced — it was right on target. Read the complete article. When at Red Herring I used to enjoy writing a “dealflop” every now and then. As luck would have it when Red Herring folded, one needed to do a deal-flop, but there was no publication. So here we are - my belated attempt at a deal flop