How is CityDesk part of the dead industry? I thought it was basically blogging software. That industry was just being born at that time.

It was Site Publishing software written as a Windows GUI application that generates static files.

At least it wasn't as mindbogglingly stupid as Dave Winer's MacOS/Win32 desktop/server programming-language/blogging-platform/outliner floor-wax/desert-topping

A Maker's marketing can be more interesting than a non-Maker's reporting.