There were several stories in the financial press on Tuesday reporting that Blockbuster would be sold by its parent Viacom. Why? Speculation by reporters in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal was that Blockbuster is facing a devastating assault from online firms such as netflix.com and from the coming wave of being able to download movies online.

Much like Search could well destroy the value of Yellow Page publishers, Blockbuster is another example of the Internet turning an industry on its head.

The Internet is driving creative destruction faster and faster.

And all of the above will go into hyperspeed when Broadband is prevalent and ubiquitous. Lots of so-called traditional business types still do not get it --- they think they have time on their side (they are wrong).

Just the other day I posted an entry about the impending death of print technology trade publishing caused by the Internet. One could go on and on.

Our new Internet Planet trade show is all about this sea change. Our program will be published shortly. Our keynote speaker, John Patrick, will be all over this theme --- it should be exciting.

And while I am pitching Jupitermedia --- watch what our ArtToday image model is doing to the way professionals and consumers buy images (online). By the way we are changing the name of our ArtToday division to Jupiterimages (by the end of the month). ArtToday just might be the largest b2b subscription model in the world today. I have never been more excited by a business model that I have been associated with --- I will be reporting more on Jupiterimages in the coming months.