Google – the Oakland As of IPOs

by | Sep 18, 2004 | Uncategorized

By all accounts, Google’s recent IPO was hugely successful (eg see Surowiecki on the Google IPO). But Google made one big mistake, at least in the eyes of the big investment banks – it didn’t bring in one of the big investments banks to manage the...

Carpets the way of the Corporation

by | Sep 15, 2004 | Uncategorized

The September issue of AFR BOSS magazine takes up as one of its themes – The Corporation. Specifically following on from the Australian release of the film of the same name. If the corporation were a real person it would be considered a psychopath, according to...

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

by | Sep 13, 2004 | Uncategorized

Well good friends of chriscurnow.com, you’ve most probably noticed the paucity of posts lately. Life just does that to you sometimes doesn’t it? What can I say? I’ve been busy. I’ve taken on a new project and the old one is not quite finished...

Birnbaum snags Hendrik Hertzberg

by | Sep 1, 2004 | Uncategorized

We try to keep up with Birnaum’s interviews in The Morning News. Here he snags an interview with New Yorker political commentator Hendrik Hertzberg. To quote from the introduction: As New Yorker editor David Remnick points out in his introduction to Politics:...