Standard and Herring
Now that the Red Herring, like the Industry Standard, has gone under, it's time for yet another post-mortem. Dan Fost makes the traditional point: that the new-economy magazines got caught up in the bubble that they were reporting, and behaved like free-spending dotcoms. But he doesn't quite capture the extraordinary arrogance of the Herring and Standard at the time. At least the Standard attracted some talent. But the Herring always used to bother me. Tony Perkins, the founder, was deeply unimpressive, and the writing embarrassing. And, still, all the startup guys would bite their tongues, smile, and suck up. Thank heavens that's done with. More postmortems on new-economy magazines [San Francisco Chronicle]
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