(FORTUNE Magazine) – Trend tracker Marian Salzman is the worldwide director for Young & Rubicam's Brand Futures Group. She supervises the 2,500 "trend scouts" who comb the world looking for the Next Big Thing. Her prediction for the year 2000? The color blue.

Reuters Oddly Enough news.excite.com/odd/ Odd bits you gotta love. One day I found a Reuters report from Sydney on how to purchase real estate on Mars.

Adformatie Online www.adformatie.nl I lived in the Netherlands for two years and have since enjoyed the Dutch take on ad industry news. I co-authored a book, Next: Trends for the Near Future (Overlook Press, 1999), which was first published in Holland and was a management bestseller there.

alt.culture: an a-z of the '90s www.altculture.com I use alt.culture to ensure that I have the specifics on everything from Jerry Garcia to virtual offices, or at least to learn the "hip and cool" words that are part of everyday trendy parlance.

Advertising Age and Adweek Online www.adage.com www.adweek.com Ad industry news, updated daily.

Travelocity.com www.travelocity.com I go here to be a back-seat driver to the travel agent.