The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising

Breathless, artfully anecdotal unsourced boo-yaa masquerading as analysis, but they do make some good points. There are a few ventures into comprehensiveness, but ultimately as a takedown you end up making this face:

Generally, the focus on the work of comparatively few people, several of the items they tout are old (ancient, in the case of the Ebay click study, which was laughable) but at the same time, there were some truth nuggets in there. My problems is: where is the industry on this, and is The Correspondent even remotely a reliable source? And far to many “I’s” “we’s” and exclamation points for serious article.