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business This page looks at business journals and newsletters that emphasise e-commerce. Business 2.0, an excellent print magazine with the dot com version in tow, profiles US web companies, leaders and technologies. B2 is opinionated, authoritative, insightful, entertaining.  Along with Iconocast and The Industry Standard -"The Newsmagazine of the Internet Economy" - it is essential reading. The local version of The Industry Standard has yet to take hold; we prefer the US version. We graze Internet World (IW), Internet.com (IC), Computerworld and Internet.Au. There's often more substance in the New York Times (NYT), the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), AsiaWeek and the UK Financial Times (FT). Red Herring doesn't sleep with the fishes; check it for intelligent - if often gossipy - coverage of the online economy in the Seattle, New York, Washington and San Francisco quadrilateral. Herring's notable for its ability to cast doubt on the dot com revolution while publishing 100 pages of full colour ads from the revolutionaries.  Thumbs down to Fast Company. Established in the spirit of "Rolling Stone meets Fortune", it's a lifestyle magazine for the aspiring digital entrepreneur or executive: spritzy texts on how to manage the virtual corporation mingle with the latest version of the Gospel According to Tom Peters, sensitive new age decaf adverts and the thoughts of Peter Senge. The best feature is the 'Consultant Debunking Unit', neatly skewering the latest buzzword or management fad. Forget about the exhaust in the fast lane and check out other journals such as eMarketer. The idiosyncratic Cook Report, like other guru publications, offers entertainment along with the occasional insight. Booz-Allen & Hamilton's Strategy + Business (S+B) is a nice example of a magazine that's declined to drop 'strategy' in favour of 'business model' but is otherwise relentlessly upbeat and, perhaps unsurprisingly, taken unawares by the great dot com meltdown of 2000.  Creative Good (CG) is the most perceptive email newsletter about internet customer relationships that we've encountered. Others include Iconocast        local Within Australia, those in search of local business journalism are advised to stick to the gutenberg version of the Australian Financial Review (AFR): the major broadsheets have yet to come to grips with the web and with rare exceptions serve as the cheerleaders of electronic commerce. Marketing & eBusiness, described as "Australia's only marketing magazine", nicely demonstrates that engaging with the web requires more than littering your publication with the digital "e-". We prefer E-Commerce Today (print versions confusingly appearing weekly and monthly) and US Electronic Commerce World (ECW).      academic  If you're looking for something like the Harvard Business Review (HBR),  albeit more indigestible, try the Journal of Electronic Commerce (JEC).   The Swiss-based International Journal of Electronic Commerce & Business Media (IJECBM) provides a view of EU developments.      gateway sites [Under Development]    next page  (technologies)