Novell at the crossroads New team moving the company to the Internet CA's 'Next Generation' Computer Associates overhauls its "Next Generation" net management platform Internet World Redux Time for the Web to get down to business Notes from The Living Web: Pods in Tucson At Esther Dyson's PC Forum, this year's theme is "The Living Web," where the forum is broken into a series of, you guessed it, pods. Physical space, conceptual space, social life, multiplayer games, 3-D, traditional media, brands and advertising each get their own pod. Add in your guest list of celebs -- including Michael Crichton, Michael Bloomberg, Reed Hundt -- a little cocktail chatter at The Westin La Paloma in Tucson and as much cyber, digi and infotalk as you'd never care to hear and "The Living Web" will start to grow on you. Watch this page for reports from PC Week Editorial Director Jim Louderback, Editor-in-Chief Eric Lundquist and columnist/rumormonger Spencer F. Katt as they live The Living Web. Jim Louderback's PC Forum Diary PC Week's editorial director describes the ambience at PC Forum, engages in some deep thinking about metaphors and hears Michael Crichton kvetch about the Internet. People In an exclusive PC Week interview, newly named Novell CEO and President Eric Schmidt talks about Novell's "unappreciated" assets and the possibility of a Sun-Netscape-Novell relationship. Science fiction author Vernor Vigne talks about future processing power -- and whether we'll soon be able to build a machine that's smarter than people. FCC Chairman Reed Hundt talks about connecting classrooms to the Web and future spectrum sales. Listen to a forum delivered by AOL President Steve Case, Bloomberg CEO Michael Bloomberg and EDventure Holding President Esther Dyson on the future of the Web. Michael Bloomberg, CEO and founder of Bloomberg Information Services, predicts the Internet is near saturation. Plus: Listen to PC Week Editorial Director Jim Louderback's interview with Bloomberg. Places Metaphor, models and myths, oh my! PC Week Editor-in-Chief Eric Lundquist looks for news at PC Forum and finds it . . . late at night in the hotel bar and in backroom meetings. Things Six products debuted Monday at PC Forum, including Centerstage, PlaceWare, HotOffice and NetBot. Digital bon mots "It's about sex," said Roger Black of Interactive Bureau, in response to a question on where the "humaness" is on the Web. He claimed that commercial sites don't like to talk about it, but sexual-oriented themes drive much of the Web. Kyle Shannon, director of New York-based Agency.Com:  . . . on what a Web site is: "A venue where participants engage in events."  . . . on VRML sites: "I think a lot of 3-D technology and virtual reality is in such an early stage that those sites kind of suck."