The Spring 2010 C&I essay “The Zeitgeist: hypePad and buzzkill” includes several notes taken from The Industry Standard–a site that I still had bookmarked, even if it was a pale shadow of the wonderful trade magazine The Industry Standard, which was great reading, fat, interesting…and overextended itself during the dotcom boom, going under as that boom went bust.
That pale shadow is now itself dead, as of a couple months ago (I don’t remember exactly when). It was absorbed into InfoWorld…sort of.
Sort of?
Yep. I had a number of items from The Industry Standard tagged in delicious, for use in future C&I essays. I probably still do. Today I wanted to use a couple of them for part of an Interesting & Peculiar Products essay.
The delicious link leads to InfoWorld. Not to the article.
Searching for the articles, by any keywords I could think of (e.g., those in the title), comes up empty.
I can’t swear the articles aren’t there…but they’re not findable. Which means they might as well not be there.
This is a shame. There was still some good coverage there. And, as far as I can tell, it’s just gone.