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Dear Sysops,

We'd like to invite you to regularly post, FREE OF CHARGE, our NEW e-mag
on new generation telecomputing technologies.  The first few issues will be
about 20 screens each, although our intention is to expand to a full-fledged
100 screen e-mag by year end.  More info on our new (ad)venture follows.  If
you're interested in posting HOTT, simply let me know ... and please provide
a readership estimate for your system.  That's all there is to it!  Bye!

LOS ANGELES TIMES & VOICE OF AMERICA FEATURE STORIES ON
   NEW, INTERNET-BASED ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE

The Los Angeles Times ran as its *lead* story, in the Wednesday, 2 March
Orange County Edition business section, a feature on the HOTT Internet-
based magazine.  (Other editions of The Times ran a condensed version
of the story.)  On Monday, 7 March, The Voice of America aired a segment
on HOTT entitled, "Information Highway Magazine."  Related articles have
appeared in IEEE Spectrum (the flagship publication of the IEEE) and
Computer (the flagship publication of the IEEE Computer Society).  

HOTT -- Hot Off The Tree -- is a FREE monthly (10/year) electronic
magazine featuring article summaries on new generation computer,
communications, & electronics technologies from over 200 trade magazines
and research journals; and, key U.S. & international daily newspapers,
news weeklies, and business magazines.  Each issue provides article
summaries on new & emerging technologies, including VR (virtual reality),
neural networks, PDAs (personal digital assistants), intelligent agents,
genetic & evolutionary programming, wireless communications, video
phones, nanotechnology, and interactive multimedia.  

Plus, HOTT includes exclusive interviews with technology pioneers.  The
first several issues feature interviews with Mark Weiser (head of Xerox
PARC's Computer Science Lab), Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg, MCC CEO
(and former DARPA director) Craig Fields, and Caltech's Carver Mead.

E-mail subscription requests to: listserv@ucsd.edu  (The "Subject" line
is ignored.)  In the body of the message, type: SUBSCRIBE HOTT-LIST (do
not include first or last names).  For subscriber privacy, please note
that the list will not be rented.  HOTT will be gated to the USENET group
bit.magazines.computing beginning in late 2Q '94.

The first issue of the reinvented HOTT e-magazine is scheduled for
transmission in late March/early April.  In the last few months HOTT has
grown from 2,000 to over 40,000 individual subscribers; this already
makes HOTT the largest circulation "e-zine" on the Internet.  And this
figure does NOT include mail exploders or BBSes (bulletin board systems)
in the U.S., such as the 2,700 member Arizona Macintosh Users Group
(AMUG).  An additional 15,000 readers are being reached through mail
exploders and BBSes in over a dozen countries.  And HOTT is making an
extensive effort to reach non-U.S. Internet providers and FidoNet-based
BBSes.)

Our goal is to make HOTT the first mass distribution AND truly global
periodical on the Information Superhighway.  Help us to achieve our
goal by informing your readers of our offering.  Thank you very much.

Excerpts from The Los Angeles Times feature follow.  The full-text of
The Los Angeles Times and Voice of America stories is available upon
request.  Please keep me in mind when composing an article on electronic
publishing, the Internet, or emergent telecomputing.

LOS ANGELES TIMES BUSINESS SECTION "LEAD" ARTICLE ON HOTT

TITLE: 

Paper-Less Publisher
  Computers: Irvine 'infomaniac's' 'e-magazine' exists only in
  cyberspace.

Source: Los Angeles Times (LT) - WEDNESDAY March 2, 1994
By: DEAN TAKAHASHI; TIMES STAFF WRITER
Section: Business   Page: 1  Pt. D  Col. 2
Full-Text Word Count: 1,518

TEXT:

    IRVINE - David Scott Lewis calls himself an "infomaniac."

    In 1975, when he was 17, he built a personal computer from 
the first available Altair kits.  He became a "hacker" and 
served as a consultant to "WarGames," a 1983 film about a teen-
age computer nerd who nearly triggers a nuclear war.

    Today, the 35-year-old Lewis cruises the Internet, the 
global electronic supernetwork known simply as "the Net" that 
links 20,000 computer networks and boasts 20 million users.  He 
spends an hour or more a day perusing more than 200 groups of 
on-line information.  He even acquired an Internet address -- a 
sort of ID number -- for his 19-week-old daughter on the day she 
was born.

    So naturally, this walking encyclopedia and information 
junkie is a fitting editor and publisher of an Internet 
magazine, Hot Off The Tree, which summarizes more than 100 
printed publications and explores our technological world.

    His "publication" circulates electronically -- only in cyber-
space -- and is a sign of the coming grass-roots explosion in the
electronic publishing world.

    "What Mr. Lewis is doing with HOTT is exciting in itself and 
also as a demonstration of how to reach a large audience on-line,"
said Daniel Dern, author of the Internet Guide for New Users and 
outgoing editor of Internet World magazine in Newton Center, Mass.
Lewis believes his magazine will become must reading among the 2.5
million serious 'Net users like himself.

    Larry Lasker, who co-wrote the screenplay for "WarGames," said 
Lewis has a talent for making technological subjects understandable
to novices.  "As a hacker, you could tell he knew his way around," 
Lasker said.  "He was an incredibly fast reader.  He was always 
motivated to find information if he didn't have it."

    Edward Roberts, a professor of management at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, said Lewis clearly has the energy to be
successful with HOTT.  "He has a craze for scanning information and
cramming it into his head and putting it together into tidbits."

CAPTION:
Photo: COLOR, David Scott Lewis compares Internet to the Gutenberg
printing press.
Photo: The paperless Irvine-based publisher of Hot Off The Tree calls
himself an "infomaniac."
MARK BOSTER / Los Angeles Times

                     Copyright (c) 1994, Times Mirror Company

For additional information contact:  David Scott Lewis, Editor-in-Chief,
d.s.lewis@ieee.org or callewis@netcom.com .  Tel: +1 818 786 0420;
VoiceMail: +1 714 662 7037.
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    *  David Scott Lewis                                                  *
    *  Editor-in-Chief and Book & Video Review Editor                     *
    *  IEEE Engineering Management Review                                 *
    *   (the world's largest circulation "high tech" management journal)  *
    *  Internet address: d.s.lewis@ieee.org      Tel: +1 714 662 7037     *
    *  USPS mailing address: POB 18438 / IRVINE CA 92713-8438  USA        *
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