NEW YORK TIMES

A Wealth of Information Online
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
URL: http://www.nytimes.com

Once again, the Internet has proved to be an invaluable news source in time of disaster. But yesterday's events showed something else about the power of the Net.

Not only does it give people access to the news and to one another but it also gives them vast amounts of information and the ability to synthesize and disseminate it.

That was nowhere more clear than on the high-tech community known as Slashdot, at www.slashdot.org, where members posted more than 1,100 messages by 5 p.m. that included links to NASA pages, first-person accounts of hearing or seeing the breakup, the text of Ronald Reagan's 1986 elegy to the Challenger astronauts, arguments over the future of space travel, and the usual exchanges of insults that crop up in any online discussion.

By Tom Smith
URL: http://www.theopenenterprise.com

IBM, easily the most influential backer of open-source software, is extensively leveraging the Sourceforge.net software development site in its open-source initiatives

By MICHAEL PRECKER / The Dallas Morning News
URL: www.dallasnews.com

Getting that first caffeine jolt in the morning can be so darned long and complicated.

You have to make coffee. Or you have to go out and buy coffee. Usually you even have to get dressed.

Not anymore. Hop out of bed and perk right up with Shower Shock, apparently the world's first soap loaded with caffeine, ready to shoot into your bloodstream through your skin instead of down your throat.

By: Brian Caulfield
Issue: June 2002
URL: www.business2.com

Slashdot's Rob Malda is pioneering a clever new model: optional advertising.