During The Bubble, The Industry Standard was (to me) an indispensible read. It combined just enough technology with just enough economics and business information for my tastes and needs. I noted how its girth swelled with glossy ads as venture capital spewed into what turned out to be a classic mania. When its advertisers went bust and the mag went from fat to skinny, it suffered the same fate. I still miss it.
The URL, even on life support, still drew a healthy attendance, so its owners (trustees?) have allowed it to be the locus of a group blog. To be authored by some of its past pixel-stained wretches, it has enough potential that we should give it an eyeball, a poke in its ribs and see how it looks. Maybe bring it a cup of chicken soup. Jimmy Gutterman just signed off his first shift of a week's tour of duty scribbling, and another is about to be let out of the debtors' dungeon to step up to the virtual typesetting machine. See: Internet Business News from The Industry Standard: What is this?
By the way, they chose Movable Type for their content management system. Excellent taste.
Posted by dougsimpson at January 23, 2004 05:25 AM | TrackBack