The Industry Standard Is Back. Why?

The Industry Standard ably chronicled–and, eventually, mirrored–the Internet boom that began a decade ago and died a few years later. (Disclosure: Despite its occasional excesses, I am honored to have been associated with the magazine.) After years of noticing that thestandard.com was still receiving ample traffic and–with one brief exception a few years back–not doing much about it, IDG, which was the Standard’s lead investor and picked up the carcass in bankruptcy court, has relaunched the site this week.

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