End of Jimlog

November 30, 2001 10:06 AM

For the past two years, jimlog has chronicled the end of the dot com explosion from my perspective through the words of others. This is my last post.



It started on a whim early November 30th 1999 in Boston.

• 14,060 mp3s
  
• 7,814 visitors
  
• 1,844 unanswered voice mails from vendors
  
• 730 days
  
• 688 posts
  
• 572 movies
  
• 189 wahoo's fish sandwiches
  
• 76 million dollars in capital
  
• 63 celebrity sightings
  
• 23 arguments with my boss
  
• 10 laid off employees
  
• 9 companies (of which 4 still exist)
  
• 3 different apartments
  
• 2 fired employees
  
• 1 Red Herring article
  
• and 0 girlfriends later, it's over.
  

The first day of jimlog two years ago heralded the most expensive domain purchase ever, and probably the absolute peak of the internet bubble. The $7.5 million paid for the Business.com domain name pales in comparison to the order of magnitude more money I spent building the site.

Other topics that first day included:

• stupid internet business models
  
• people who quit startups and get offered sweet deals to stay
  
• open directory
  
• using offline advertising to build online brands
  
• what to name the 2000 decade
  
• 17 year old internet exec who committed suicide
  
• the bane of web pages - comet cursors
  
• expensive corporate name consultants
  
• incubators as a good financial investment
  
• Jeff Bezos and the "fastest expansion of distribution capacity in peacetime history"
  

Some topical trends I've noticed in jimlog:

• 9-11
  
• Anything bad about Silicon Valley
  
• Bad dot com management
  
• Carly Fiorina
  
• Day trading
  
• DEN
  
• eCompanies
  
• Ecstasy
  
• Generation Y
  
• George W. Bush
  
• Good employees (glut, and scarcity)
  
• Google
  
• Human Genome Project
  
• Incubators
  
• Internet entrepreneurs
  
• Laying people off
  
• Microsoft
  
• Napster
  
• Online advertising doesn't have to suck
  
• Web usability
  

Will jimlog return some day? Maybe. But it won't be anything like it has been for the past 2 years. It's time to move on. You see, The Times They Are A-Changin', at least for me.

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