Broke.com

How writer Spike Gillespie learned to stop worrying and love Austin's tech bust.

"...our money everywhere (as did everyone else in the industry)...."

March 2, 2001 Features Feature by Spike Gillespie

What I Learned at the Dot-Bomb Revolution

Robert Bryce recounts his short, happy career in the Internet wave

"...business and technology. Although my knowledge of the tech industry was limited, I jumped at the chance -- and..."

Nov. 30, 2001 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Learning to Play Nice

SXSW Interactive panelists discuss the future of the tech industry. A lot.

"...Industry Trends and New Directions Track..."

March 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Learning to Play Nice

SXSW Interactive panelists discuss the future of the tech industry. A lot.

"...Industry Trends and New Directions Track..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Technical Difficulties

Older professionals face a hard choice: leave Austin or go tech?

"...in youth-dominated fields such as software development and sales, dot-com ventures, multimedia, and Web design. But headlines cheering the..."

March 2, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Power Surge

Local company finds flywheel generated electric power is a growing niche in the current market.

"...might assume that Joe Pinkerton's company is just another dot-com disaster waiting to happen. Although Pinkerton's company, Active Power,..."

Feb. 9, 2001 News Feature by Robert Bryce

The Making of Downtown North

The Domain may sound like just another fancy mall – but planners say it's the seed of a second Austin

"...actually dates back to the heady days of the dot-com boom – and shortly thereafter, which tells the whole..."

Sept. 28, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Q&A: Burnie Burns

Rooster Teeth founder on RTX, Fullscreen, and convergence

"...on that, I was working in the dot com industry, and I was watching what was happening in the..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Riding the Tech Titanic

Austin looks for recovery after the dot-com bust.

"...people who had left their high-profile gigs to join dot-coms. In reality, our lead story two years ago this..."

March 15, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

E-tail This!

La Frontera is proof that e-commerce has not destroyed traditional retail commerce.

"...the e-commerce revolution that was supposed to destroy its industry...."

March 2, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Brain Boom

Austin's Techno Geeks and Slackers Cash In

"...of active recruiting netted the city dozens more hardware industry anchors, including the homegrown giant Dell, and a solid..."

March 20, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

No Commitment Necessary

As the economy takes a dive, many high tech workers find themselves stuck on the temping treadmill

"...because, by her account and those of other contract industry managers, the tech industry's short-term loss may be the..."

March 9, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...plays made in the 1980s to foster Austin's semiconductor industry. Now, Martinez says that high tech industry, plus UT's..."

Feb. 10, 2006 News Feature

The Next Austin Bust

Will it be bad? Can we be ready? Or should we not care?

"...last big shrink of local prosperity with the end-of-the-millennium dot-com bust (followed by 9/11). Throughout that period, Austin has..."

March 8, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The 2001 Austin Chronicle Restaurant Poll

"...past 12 months have been for the Austin restaurant industry. As the Chronicle's 2000 Restaurant Poll went to press,..."

May 25, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Small Town, Big Find

The energy debate gets personal in Haynesville

"...feet of Louisiana. We've got to work with the industry, and we have to dictate how it's going to..."

March 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

The Game Report

What's on the Boards With Austin's Game Companies

"...truly impressive advertising sphere also aimed at corporate audiences, industry traffic, and the sale of a vast array of..."

May 30, 1997 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

All Access

Austin's B-Side Entertainment rethinks how to get a movie to the masses

"...If you go by years, Hyams is an industry veteran. "At the age of 5, I decided that..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Mike Kanin

There Goes the Sun

Austin's clean-energy industry appears poised to take off -- but city leaders seem surprisingly unenthusiastic.

"...Energy seems inexhaustible; the prospects for the emerging clean-energy industry seem limitless. Jobs are being created right now, and..."

Nov. 28, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Packs a Punch

Chances are you've seen Powerhouse Animation's work, whether you know it or not -- its portfolio includes Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights, Disney TV's The Proud Family, and plenty of local TV spots, ad campaigns, and one-off Flash animation projects.

"...At a time when the animation industry appears to be fragmenting over cost overruns, bloated budgets,..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The New Sobriety

SXSW Interactive Conference photos and panel reviews

"...Industry Trends Track..."

March 22, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Never Content

Salon Editor David Talbot and Inside.com Editor Michael Hirschorn have been on the media frontline throughout their careers. And both are well-versed in the pitfalls of providing a product -- online content -- that, so far at least, has few willing buyers. But the two have taken different approaches to achieving profitability on the Web.

"...gleeful delight in watching at the deathbeds of fading dot-coms...."

March 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Roger Gathman

The Full Monty

With the release of 'RWBY,' Monty Oum is officially Rooster Teeth's rock star

"...for a long time," Burns, a veteran of the dot-com era, says, "And for a lot of young people,..."

July 19, 2013 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Dialing for Dollar$

Austin radio stations scramble to keep the money flowing in a strange new media world

"...that strikes to the very core of the radio industry. As part of a nationwide plan, Clear Channel will..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Lessons of the Good Run

An interview with Dean cyberforce Joe Trippi

"...corps to say the Howard Dean campaign was a dot-com bust," he told the Chronicle recently. "It really was..."

March 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Animation Revelation

Charging toward a movie, TV, or computer screen near you: HorseBack Salad Entertainment

"...Salvador Dalí's great, lost masterpiece; the implosion of Austin's dot-com bubble (and the resulting tsunami of free talent that..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...single, emotionally and physically stable, successful in a Austin-based dot-com startup company making God knows what...."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Technomancers

Computer Gaming Gurus at SXSW Interactive

"...probably add a lot about how the computer game industry is replaying the early days of moviemaking, on high..."

March 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Allen Varney

What Is Going On With Ken Paxton and Nate Paul?

What we know – and don't know – about the strange connection between the embattled Austin real estate magnate and the Texas attorney general

"...after years of sustained storm damage to the news industry is about the size of a modest recreational softball..."

Jan. 8, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

SXSW Interactive 04

Exclusive Web-only 'Austin Chronicle' coverage of the wonks, the weekend, and the wilder side of cyberspace

"...politics, and not just Dean's campaign, but all across industry, news, and social networks...."

March 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

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