Hold the thought, Get the point

Carter's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Before I come to the point it’s important for one to understand where I am coming from. Here is an account of a relevant story that I feel would help me express my feelings and the message I am trying to convey in a better way. " I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners ... I have gone to join Ken (recently deceased colleague Ken Oosterbroek) if I am that lucky " excerpts from suicide note of Kevin Carter who took his own life by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck’s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the passenger-side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Carter's prize winning photograph was sold to the New York Times; the photograph first ...

It's officially the largest gift of money that any IT Company has got so far. And naturally as it comes, has attracted more than it's share of brickbats. A couple of days ago, I blogged about how the IPO could be a fantastic mistake or an accidental triumph , a lot of people thought I could have made the wrong judgement. But as it's owner in his hoodie and his grand PR team begins to whip up the markets into a frenzy, it's the moment of truth. The most important questions that face the social networking company are: Valuation : The social network is aiming for an IPO at $28-$35 a share, for a value of up to $95 billion. But as a *Breakingviews analysis shows, sanity resides at the low end of the valuation scale. Governance : It could take decades or only a few years but the overwhelming control investors are ceding to the 27-year-old Facebook founder will eventually cease to be in their best interest. Dependence : It’s not just social networking junkies that...