I have been on the road this week. I visited our Chicago and Sioux Falls offices on Monday. The Chicago office is a sales office for Jupiterimages. It was stimulating to listen to the sale team tell me about the inroads they are making in selling our Rights Managed images throughout the midwest. Good progress is also happening with customers for our Jupiter Images Unlimited RF subscription offering.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota is the home of our Animation Factory team. It was a bit of a celebration visit for the launch of our higher end subscription offering - AnimationFactoryPro.

By Monday night I was in San Francisco for a Internet dinner confab related to the JMP Securities Conference that is taking place this week. Tuesday was spent meeting with fund managers at the JMP event and a quick visit with the editors and sales team at the San Francisco office of our Jupiter Online Media operation.

I write this post from Los Angeles on the eve of visiting the Jupiterimages' Pasadena office.

Now to the subject of the title of this post: Driving South on Route 101 between San Francisco and San Jose I got the sense of being back in 1999 as I started to see highway billboards pushing a variety of Internet companies. Billboards are an unscientific way of determining froth in the Internet space. The more billboards, the more froth. A few years ago Internet billboards were few and far between. Now, however, they are abundant. We could be in for an Internet market correction based on this "Meckler Billboard Theory."