links for 2007-09-11

• Time To Bring Back The Industry Standard?
  My friend Eric Savitz speculates whether IDG is preparing to bring back The Industry Standard, the “newsmagazine of the Internet Economy" that closed in 2001 (I used to be the Standard's European Editor; Eric worked there, too). Check the next link.
  (tags: magazines theindustrystandard)
• Coming Back... The Industry Standard
  The page just says "Sign up to receive your invitation to The Industry Standard": preparing to re-launch the mag as online-only magazine?
  (tags: magazines theindustrystandard)
• The New York Times may abandon its paid section TimesSelect
  Scott Karp on the NYT possibly abandoning TimesSelect: "The new economics of media make charging for content nearly impossible ... there’s so much [free] content of at least proximate quality that the paid content provider has virtually no pricing power
  (tags: nytimes newspapers journalism content)
• Top French daily Le Monde starts user-generated portal
  "Le Post" mixes up feeds of info and news of hybrid origin: those created by the staffers and those created by the readers. (thx David for the link)
• The black wire and the white wire, or the dual network strategy
  "At work I have two ethernet cables. One is black and one is white. The black one is connected to our corporate network ... The white is standard DSL ... there are really two IT functions in any company ... two networks work better than one". (LongTail)
• Seven Wonders of the IT World
  The fastest supercomputer. Google's superprotected data center. The computer closest to the North Pole (it's a webcam). The smallest PC. The constantly changing core of Linux. A tour of the most impressive and unusual marvels of the IT world, by CIO mag.
• Inside the world of Google The Dalles
  Two journalists from the local newspaper The Dalles Chronicle have been the only reporters allowed into Google's new big data center in that Oregon town. No big scoop here (they had to sign a NDA) but peek into how Google embeds itself in a community.
  (tags: google datacenter)
• For Americans taking their iPhone abroad: it can be expensive
  An American family on holiday in the Mediterranean didn't use their 3 iPhones but got a 54-page monthly bill of nearly $4,800 from AT&T. The iPhone regularly updates e-mail in the background, even while it's off, generating roaming data charges. (Newsday)
  (tags: iPhone)
• Enabling the social company - Whitepaper
  A (free to download) whitepaper by longtime interactive media columnist Steve Outing on how social networking is impacting corporate customer relationships. Good introduction to SN with several case studies and tips.
  (tags: socialnetworking enthusiastgroup)