Recently, he's looked at the process from the point of view of the disrupters themselves. He has come up with a series of tests to help entrepreneurs judge whether their ideas are likely to succeed in the marketplace.

nice article from econtent about RSS (maybe because they quoted Rael?)...

Pretty damn neat, maybe soon we can all have our own satellites... Also visit the website: www.ew.usna.edu/pcsat Inexpensive Satellite Does the Job By TOM STUCKEY, Associated Press Writer ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Once every 100 minutes, a bargain basement satellite loops around the earth, sending and receiving digital messages over antennae made from a metal tape measure. After four months in space, the U.S. Naval Academy's ``bird'' is proving surprisingly resilient, to the delight of the midshipmen and faculty advisers who designed and built it. The so-called Prototype Communications Satellite (PCSat) was the 44th amateur satellite put in orbit. It is one of more than a dozen built by university students around the world. At a cost of just $50,000 - including plane tickets to the Alaska launch site - it was constructed using off-the-shelf parts not designed to withstand the rigors of space.

Great RAND paper on reviewing history to discern the future (even though it was written in 1998) by comparing publishing to the Internet. It's always good to review where we have been.

CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSMAN, IF YOU THINK CHANGES SHOULD BE MADE! When a House Judiciary subcommittee begins two days of hearings this morning on proposed changes in the Copyright Act, the Digital Media Association will have achieved a milestone in its long running legal and regulatory battle with the Recording Institute Association of America (RIAA). The subcommittee on will be reviewing Copyright Office recommendations for changes to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that would enlarge Congress' original 1996 legislative definition of "interactive" Web radio. If Congress ultimately approves the changes, Webcasters could gain parity with traditional radio broadcasters in the royalty rates that must be paid to copyright holders for the use of their songs.

(Rep. Boucher begins the long battle) As terrorism and war begin to lose their grip over the legislative agenda in Washington, intellectual property battles about peer-to-peer file-sharing, digital rights management, the scope of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other issues are poised to re-emerge, said prominent Capitol Hill power brokers during a symposium Wednesday.

Washington Post, Thursday, November 8, 2001; Page E01 The Pentagon is taking a friendlier view of Napster's file-sharing concept than are America's big entertainment companies, which have repeatedly sued tech upstarts to stop people from swapping songs, movies and other copyrighted material. by Leslie Walker

Invisible Data-Collection Tool Poses Threat to Established Brands Arlington, Va., August 14, 2001 - Cyveillance�, the leading provider of automated Internet intelligence, today announced the results of a study revealing that the use of Web bugs, or online hidden information collectors, has increased 488 percent in the past three years. The results indicate that, on average, a Web page is nearly five times more likely to contain a Web bug today than in 1998. or visit the NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/14/technology/ebusiness/14WEB.html

The movement to build a new-generation internet through a global computer "grid" will receive a big boost on Thursday when International Business Machines, the world's largest computing company, commits itself to the new technology.

Related link: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/20/technology/20MUSI.html...