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Cosmos Broadcasting

Cosmos owns and operates fifteen network affiliated television stations, a cable advertising sales subsidiary (CableVantage Inc.), a broadcast equipment sales distributorship (Broadcast Merchandising Corp.) and a video production company (Take Ten Productions). WeÕve maintained an impressive record of growth through our ability to meet the information and entertainment needs of local audiences in small to midsized markets. Cosmos stations are operationally autonomous in making their own programming, sales and personnel decisions. The Cosmos family maintains an active presence on the Internet. We encourage you to visit our station sites.

http://www.libertycorp.com/cosmos/cosmos_index.asp

Explore the MG Taylor Models

http://www.mgtaylor.com/mgtaylor/glasbead/expmodel.htm

Bringing Silicon Valley Inside, by Gary Hamel, Harvard Business Review, September-October 1999

"In Silicon Valley, exciting new business ideas rapidly attract capital and talent away from less worthy ventures. But in big companies, ideas, capital, and talent are stagnant - prisoners of tradtional bureaucratic ways of allocating resources. To capture the Valley's entrepreneurial magic, your company needs to move from resource allocation to resource attraction."

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/prod_detail.asp?3464

Interval: The Think Tank that Tanked, by Tia O'Brien, SV Magazine, September 3, 2000

How Paul Allen's dream of inventing the future fizzled out.

The Media Lab at a Crossroads, by David H. Freedman, Technology Review, September-October 2000.

"Fierce competition, radical expansion, a dubious funding model and maybe even a new director spell the end of an era. Can a trailblazing enterprise survive and thrive?"

Straight out of the Stages of an Enterprise Model, MIT's Media Lab pushes the Entrepreneurial Button.

http://www.techreview.com/magazine/sep00/freedman.asp

Luring the Best in an Unsettled Time, by Mary Williams Walsh, New York Times, January 30, 2001

Companies are now searching urgently for new ways to foster old-fashioned loyalty and commitment. A number of influential corporations are experimenting with a concept called "employer of choice." Part public relations campaign, part human resources experiment, it seeks to assure employees that no other workplace suits them better.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/01working-wals.html?ex=981870868&ei=1&en=8fb0b5c8c91c1a45

Positive Deviant, by David Dorsey, Fast Company, December 2000

Jerry Sternin's job was to help save starving children in Vietnam. Faced with an impossible time frame, he adopted a radical approach to making change. His idea: Real change begins from the inside.

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/41/sternin.html

Mother Earth Mother Board, by Neal Stephenson, WIRED, December 1996

The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html

What New Economy?, Q&A with Lou Gerstner of IBM , Technology Review, January/February 2001

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/print_version/gerstner.html

Dots Dashed, Unit of One, Lucy McCauley and Christine Canabou, Fast Company, February 2001, page 85

Dotcoms come and dotcoms go, but the lessons we learn from them last a lifetime. The new economy has turned a corner; that's old news. It's far more interesting and useful to spot the new economy's new location. Where you think we are now depends a lot on what you think you learned from the last round. Here's a report from the GPSs of 16 explorers -- gurus, VCs, leaders, and bleeders -- of the Internet's opening act.

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/43/one.html

Scient's Near-Death Experience, by Keith H. Hammonds, Fast Company, February 2001, 43, page 99

The leaders of Scient Corp. built a thriving, fast-growing consulting firm that owed its very life to the Internet economy. Then the dotcoms imploded -- and many of Scient's customers folded. Here's how the firm is preparing for the next economy.

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/43/scient.html

Marc Andreessen: Act II, by George Anders, Fast Company, February 2001

What's still true -- and what was never true -- about the Internet.

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/43/andreessen.html

Ten Passed Technologies, by Nick Montfort, Technology Review, January/February 2001

Not every disappearing technology deserves that fate. Sometimes the "losers" have an elegance and simplicity the "winners" lack. Here are ten examples.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/montfort.asp

Artificial Life: Boids of a Feather Flock Together, by Shawn Carlson, Scientific American, November 2000

"Scientists sometimes struggle to understand why certain animals act as they do, especially social animals. A school of fish or a flock of birds, for example, behaves in many ways like a single creature. Yet exactly how the individuals organize themselves into a "superorganism" is still very much a mystery." In this Amateur Scientist column, Carlson looks at a variety of artificial life-forms.

http://www.sciam.com/2000/1100issue/1100amsci.html

For more on boids and flocking rules, see this entry from the Journal of Transition Management on the MG Taylor Corporation website.

Media Makers Content to Interact, by Brad King, WIRED News, Jan. 25, 2001

At the National Association of Television Program Executives meeting, TV executives and Web content producers who have been fighting each other for eyeballs are now looking at ways to create content that can be delivered both online and on-screen.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,41354,00.html

Digital TV Arrives; Now What?, by Brad King, WIRED News, Jan. 22, 2001

The interactive television age is dawning.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,41196,00.html

Big Companies Win Airwave Bids, by Stephen Labaton, New York Times, January 25, 2001

Taking advantage of rules intended to help the smallest telecommunications companies and bolster competition, the nation's largest wireless phone services and their partners are on the verge of winning scores of new licenses in an auction of airwaves that will enable them to expand service and move into new territories

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/25/technology/25SPEC.html (registration required)

Radio Active, by Alex Markels, WIRED, June 2000

Up against the megastations in a battle for the airwaves, do-it-yourself DJs are deploying two potent weapons - 100-watt transmitters and the global reach of the Web.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.06/radio.html

Most active North American pirate radio stations,* 1994, WIRED, January 1996

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/top_ten.html

The Future of Radio, edited by David Pescovitz, WIRED, July 1997

You've heard the hype. We asked the experts. Here's the real timetable.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.07/reality_check.html

With AOLTV, It's Lonely at the Set Top, by Edmund Sanders

In AOLTV, no one can hear you scream.

http://www.latimes.com/business/columns/techcol/20010125/t000007113.html

IFILM - The Place for Internet Film

http://www.ifilm.com/

Satellite radio, by Barry Fox, New Scientist, January 24, 2000

Billions are being spent to try to deliver ad-free radio stations from satellites to moving vehicles.

http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999354

Vivendi's High Wireless Act, by Frank Rose ,WIRED, December 2000

CEO Jean-Marie Messier's deals with Vodafone and Seagram were a star turn on the European stage. As information becomes truly portable, a global media company paired with continent-wide distribution may prove an unbeatable combination.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.12/vivendi.html

Talk is Cheap in the City, by Henry L. Bertoni, Nature, January 18, 2001

"Telecommunications companies have paid a heavy price for their share of the radio spectrum. So they have been quick to exploit 'multiple antennas' that can increase transmission rates in urban areas."

(Click here for the pdf document)

News Flash, by Paul Kunkel, WIRED, August 2000

Scrap the presses - print and the Web are racing toward the biggest media merger in history.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/epapers.html

Publishing Without a Net, by Robin Clewley, WIRED News, Sep. 16, 2000

Interested in reading the latest article online from Talk magazine? How about Vanity Fair? What about that one article that came out a few months back in The New Yorker? Don't even think about looking for these articles using the Web. They don't exist. You'll have to head to your local library and thumb through the old card catalogue.

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,38643,00.html

Disney to Abandon Portal Site, by Saul Hansell, New York Times, January 30, 2001

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/30/technology/30DISN.html

Africa Rising, by John Perry Barlow, WIRED, January 1998

Everything you know about Africa is wrong.

Most Africans stayed out of the loop of the 20th century and were not homogenized into the generica that is now much of the Northern Hemisphere, or what they call the North. And thus their continent - so intensely different from the rest of the world, so vastly different within itself - represents a huge and still unconnected battery of stored potential. All it would take for Africa to leapfrog into the wonderland of an information economy would be to attach the electrodes - get it wired, in other words - and then watch its huge voltage zap the gap. Or so went my theory.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.01/barlow.html

Latin America: The Mobile World, by Julia Scheeres, WIRED News, Jan. 25, 2001

While cell phones are basically prestigious toys in the United States, they're a necessity in many parts of Latin America.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41309,00.html

Here Comes Paper 2.0, by Ron Dagani, C&E News, January 15, 2001

Corporate researchers are developing flexible, paperlike electronic displays that one day may change the way we read books and periodicals.

http://cen.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/79/i03/html/7903sci1.html (subscription required)

Effective Disaster Warnings, Report by the Working Group on Natural Disaster Information Systems Subcommittee on Natural Disaster Reduction, November 2000

Natural disasters cost the US about $1billion/week between 1992-1996.

"This document compiles into a single reference a wealth of information on public and private sector R&D capability to provide early warning of natural or technological hazards that threaten the saftety and well-being of our citizens."

(Click here for the pdf document)

The Future is Now, WIRED, October 2000

Ever since computers started communicating across the ether, geek pundits, nerd poets, and online philosophers have talked about The Future The Net Will Bring, foreseeing that the lightning-speed distributive power of the medium will wreak creative havoc on the world. A few of these predictions have already come true, a few haven't. For the most part we've been waiting, impatient and hopeful.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/p2p_intro.html

Issues Aside, How Napster Works and What It Really Matters, by Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, August 5, 2000.

"To understand why Napster and its clones may be the most significant development in software since the graphical Web browser, you have to forget about music, copyright and piracy."

"Napster is a giant step toward turning the Web into what it was always supposed to be -- a multi-directional medium that gives consumers of information an easy, powerful way to be producers too."

http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg080600.htm

Putting Napster's Technology to Other Uses, by Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, August 8, 2000

http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg080900.htm

Free Riding on Gnutella, by Eytan Adar and Bernardo A. Huberman, First Monday, October 2000

An extensive analysis of user traffic on Gnutella shows a significant amount of free riding in the system. By sampling messages on the Gnutella network over a 24-hour period, we established that almost 70% of Gnutella users share no files, and nearly 50% of all responses are returned by the top 1% of sharing hosts. Furthermore, we found out that free riding is distributed evenly between domains, so that no one group contributes significantly more than others, and that peers that volunteer to share files are not necessarily those who have desirable ones. We argue that free riding leads to degradation of the system performance and adds vulnerability to the system. If this trend continues copyright issues might become moot compared to the possible collapse of such systems.

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_10/adar/index.html

Betting on Bandwidth, by David Sheff, WIRED, February 2001

Edward Tian has a pide dream for China. It's called democracy.

Internet Everywhere, by John Adam, Technology Review, September/October 2000

"Handheld devices are taking computers from personal to intimate. A new generation of wireless network is coming that could keep everyone connected all the time."

http://www.techreview.com/magazine/sep00/adam.asp

The Premise and Promise of a Global Information Infrastructure, by Christine L. Borgman, First Monday, August 2000

"The premise of a global information infrastructure is that governments, businesses, communities, and individuals can cooperate to link the world's telecommunication and computer networks together into a vast constellation capable of carrying digital and analog signals in support of every conceivable information and communication application. The promise is that this constellation of networks will promote an information society that benefits all: peace, friendship, and cooperation through improved interpersonal communications; empowerment through access to information for education, business, and social good; more productive labor through technology-enriched work environments; and stronger economies through open competition in global markets. "

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_8/borgman/index.html

Where Have All the Computers Gone?, By John Seely Brown, Technology Review, January/February 2001

The following document arrived at the offices of Technology Review in a time capsule dated 2020. It purports to be a history of computers written by computer scientist-turned-historian John Seely Brown. In the late 20th century, Dr. Brown served as director of Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/brown.asp

Computing Goes Everywhere, by Robert Buderi, Technology Review, January/February 2001

The dream of "ubiquitous computing" has been around for a while. Now it's serious enough that a company like IBM is willing to throw $500 Million at it.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine

What the $%@# is DivX;-)?, by Justin Hibbard, Red Herring, January 16, 2001

Will a hacker-bred technology for sharing videos fly in the real world?

Where in the World?, Alexandra Stikeman, Technology Review, January/February 2001

A new scheme unites the Internet and geography

Things That Matter: Khmer Kids Link to the Future, by Michael Hawley, Technology Review, January/February 2001

As the digital industries grow out of their adolescence, people are beginning to question where these technologies are really taking us. So when an old lab's research themes fade and new ones emerge, folks pay attention. And at the Media Lab, the freshest aims involve domains such as art and human expression, creative societies in developing nations, expeditionary and ecological field efforts, and Media Labs in other countries as an ongoing way to explore creative technology in indigenous contextsÑbold and humane efforts that take computing and communication and any other sort of imaginative technology utterly for granted, like paper or duct tape.

http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/hawley.asp

Whither Latino E-Commerce?, by Julia Scheeres, WIRED News, Jan. 30, 2001

When the self-proclaimed worldwide Internet commerce authority cancels a conference on Latin America, you know there's trouble.

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,41498,00.html

The Transparent Society, by David Brin, WIRED, December 1996

The cameras are coming. They're getting smaller and nothing will stop them. The only question is: who watches whom?

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/fftransparent.html

Pink Slip in Your Genes, by Diane Martindale, Scientific American, January 2001

"Evidence builds that employers hire and fire based on genetic tests; meanwhile protective legislation languishes."

http://www.sciam.com/2001/0101issue/0101scicit2.html

Circles of Trust, by Wendy Grossman, Scientific American, August 2000, pg. 34.

How Vouching for Users Beats Encryption Alone in Maintaining Privacy

http://www.sciam.com/2000/0800issue/0800cyber.html

Online privacy matters, by Luc Hatlestad, Redherring.com, January 18, 2001

http://www.redherring.com/industries/2001/0118/ind-mag-90-privacy011801.html

The Army Is Watching Your Kid, by Jeffrey Benner, WIRED News, Jan. 29, 2001

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has asked the Department of Defense to explain why it is monitoring the Web surfing habits of children using the Internet at school.

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,41476,00.html

Music's Model Not Made for TV, by Brad King, WIRED News, Jan. 25, 2001

Buckle up movie mavens, consumers are itching to take you for a ride. Discussions at this week's annual meeting of the National Association of Television Programming Executives focused not so much on digital rights management and security, but on developing tracking applications that would identify pirates after their works were stolen.

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41385,00.html

E-music: Piracy fight turns into long, bumpy road, by John Borland Special to ZDNet January 24, 2001

The record industry's long-running attempt to prevent online piracy faces a critical test this week, as the increasingly restless members of the Secure Digital Music Initiative meet for the first time this year.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2678069,00.html

Pirates Invade the Web, by Hari Kunzru, WIRED, December 1997

Pirates like InterFACE are using the Web to break radio's clubby broadcast monopoly by bringing London's insurgent music scene to the world.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.12/es_pirate.html

The Next Economy Of Ideas, by John Perry Barlow, WIRED, October 2000

Will copyright survive the Napster bomb? Nope, but creativity will.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/download.html

Populist Power Tools, by Seth Shulman, Technology Review, January/February 2001

The take-home message from Napster: Songs won't remain shrink-wrapped. We'd better get used to it!

Your Work is Mine!, by Michael Dertouzos, Technology Review, November/December 2000

Let's not hide behind excuses. Napster is an act of aggrression that boasts, "I am entitled to your work for free."

A Love Song for Napster, by Jaron Lanier, Discover, February 2001

Imagine what could happen to democracy if the courts kill off this popular software.

The revolution will not be Napsterized, by Rafe Needleman, Redherring.com, January 26, 2001

http://www.redherring.com/cod/2001/0129.html

Music Sites Laud Napster's Nadir, by Brad King, WIRED News, Jan. 30, 2001

A new fee-based Napster is music to the ears of struggling entertainment sites.

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41491,00.html

Striking a Balance: Complexity and Knowledge Landscapes, by David Oliver and Johan Roos

http://www.knowledgelandscapes.org/

What are knowledge landscapes?, Anticipator - Practicing the Next Common Sense

A knowledge landscape is mental model we can use to visualize knowledge critical to our long-term sustainability. The peaks we see in our knowledge landscapes represent sources of potential knowledge we can develop in our attempt to stay ahead of our competitors. Their shape depends on the breadth of our knowledge "horizons", and we climb knowledge peaks by making finer and finer distinctions in our daily lives.

http://www.anticipator.com/concept/kl.htm

From Fitness Landscapes to Knowledge Landscapes, by Johan Roos and David Oliver, Systemic Practice and Action Research, Vol. 12.3, 1999

(Click here for the pdf document.)

Ralph Stacey's Matrix - Not directly related to fitness landscapes, but can work well with them (according to Lisa).

http://www.vha.com/edgeplace/edgeplace/map.html

Kimball's Biology Pages - A great source for all sorts of biological information. Good metaphor fodder.

http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/

Popular Power - one of the companies experimenting with the "Distributed Computing" model.

http://www.popularpower.com/company/background.html

Internet Computing and the Emerging Grid, by Ian Foster, Nature Web Matters

A good resource on the distributed computation paradigm of Popular Power.

"Internet computing and Grid technologies promise to change the way we tackle complex problems. They will enable large-scale aggregation and sharing of computational, data and other resources across institutional boundaries. And harnessing these new technologies effectively will transform scientific disciplines ranging from high-energy physics to the life sciences."

http://www.nature.com/nature/webmatters/grid/grid.html

Talk City - Online Communities

http://www.talkcity.com/

Talk City - Marketing Group

Lots of discussion around the idea of "Brand", a meme that came up a number of times in the Sponsor Session.

http://www.tcmg.com/index.html

Talk City - Building Communities for Business Online

(Click here for the pdf document)

BetterTogether, The Report of the Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America, December 19, 2000.

"The goal of BetterTogether is to provide interactive opportunities to celebrate the new and better ways that americans are connecting, and provide tools that make it easier for them to do so."

click here for the pdf

http://www.bettertogether.org/

Hollow City, by Rebecca Solnit, Utne Reader, January-February 2001

Run for your lives! The dot-coms are coming! As computer money flows into San Francisco, the quirkiness and creativity drain out.

http://www.utne.com/bTravel.tmpl?command=search&db=dArticle.db&eqheadlinedata=Hollow%20City

Soul Searching, by Pythia Peay, Utne Reader, January-February 2001

How to uncover - and nurture the unique spirit of your hometown.

The 10 Most Underrated Towns in America, by Peter Katz, Utne Reader, January-February 2001

Notes on 10 great places once dismissed as bad news or Dullsville (or both)

Archimedes' Bathtub, The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking, by David Perkins, Norton, 2000

The Biology of Business, Decoding the Natural Laws of Enterprise, edited by John Henry Clippinger III, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999

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