VITAMEDIAS
Go Boom: A magazine founded to document the Internet economy suffers the same sad fate: swift and astonishing growth followed by swifter and more astonishing collapse. The Industry Standard came out of nowhere, grew faster and fatter than any magazine in American history - and then blew up. In his new book, former Standard editor James Ledbetter chronicles the giddy, thoughtless enthusiasm that took over so many people in publishing and technology in the late 1990s.