By Example , along with several other cool independently published books, at the NoMediaKings.org website. The Digital Autopsy at The Industry Standard. Ashes to ashes, Dust to dust, First came the boom. Now the bust.
Humans are much better prepared to deal with individual deaths than with the demise of corporations.
Yet when a company dies, we can do little but stare into utter blankness. There is no place to mourn, no way to remember except for the stereotypical trip to a local bar for the pink-slip party. That, my friends, is not enough. Paleolithic tribes left us more fitting memento mori. It remains the task of us, the living, to create rituals that give meaning to the death of the dotcoms, those vague entities that streaked so brilliantly through our lives on wings of hype and stock options.