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Jason Voigt, a reader posted his comments in response to my Salon op-ed. He posed the question “But I wish you had gone further in characterizing the nature of any potential emergent gospel: what’s needed and what’s not.” I looked around for answers, and yes I have been thinking about it, but no at this [...]

In third world countries it is called corruption, in America it is crony capitalism. My former colleague Dan Briody has taken the covers off this nasty way of doing business in his book, The Iron Triangle which is all about the shadowy Carlyle Group. Slate has an awesome piece on his book.

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Melissa Hourigan Account Manager InterActive PR:: From a PR person’s point of view, Red Herring coverage was always the dream of every client we have ever had (we deal with start-ups for the most part). I remember my first day in tech pr, I was given a copy of the magazine and was told [...]

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, [...]

From PaidContent.org :: The infamous Jason Calacanis writes on the sale of his VCR:”We basically leveled the second biggest brand in the space, VentureWire, in under year. Venture Reporter was a database and Venture Wire was a blog. There is nothing wrong with blogs, but [...]