Someone has to clean up the refuse on the tech frontier. Garbagemen are the people who run help desks, do low-level coding, and check to see that sites and services are free of bugs. These are your really savvy freelance types. Web designers, content producers, and others with obscure Net industry titles who hop from job to job. The cubicle-bound slobs who work in the back offices, carrying out the business plans that marketing execs come up with.
Fry cooks tend to be young, overworked, and often angry at the world.
Think conference speakers and marketers. Gold diggers are expert networkers, fast talkers, and good at spinning a glamorous mystique around things like targeted e-commerce marketing and portal personalization. In the e-commerce era, the closest thing to a cowboy may, oddly enough, be a consultant. The consultant caste is famous for taking on a project, building something that's full of holes, pocketing the cash, and leaving town before the authorities can catch up. These are the laptop-toting pundits who claim to foresee the digital future, often with notably absurd results.