BigDownload has a good look at what you'll be doing if you happen to get into the game...  just the kind of thing we've all been looking for!  Includes screenshots of the various screens and whatnot.

Once your key bindings, character name, skin, and other settings are set to your liking, you're given the option to partake in a training session while the game continues its rather laborious installation. Quake III veterans will find themselves face-to-face with crash, the original game's first opponent. The opening tutorial, in which Crash introduces you to mysterious items such as weapons, health, ammo and armor, will be quite dull for anyone who has ever so much as touched an FPS. But what else are you going to do while the installation finishes? Run around, frag Crash, and wallow in your shallowness as your marvel at how sexy Quake Live looks.

Link: Hands-on: Quake Live - Big Download Blog

Considering that ET is based of the Q3A engine (right?) this seems like a no-brainer to me. If QL takes off, that is.

"If [Quake Live] is successful, we've tossed around the idea of taking the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory game - which was actually always more popular than Q3A in the online space - and doing a similar treatment to it with the experience we've gained here," Carmack told PC Zone.

I still play ET. And I like it. :p It's either going to be "We've got the gold!" or "We've lost the radar parts!" for this one!!!

Link: PC News: Carmack considers Wolfenstein: ET Live - ComputerAndVideoGames.com

Gamespot has a preview of Quake Live, straight outta QuakeCON (no I'm not there :p)

Some interesting new tidbits, including more on how the in-game ads and possible tie-ins and sponsorships might work....

Sponsors will also host contests and special events that will translate into real-world prizes for Quake Live players. We already see plenty of sponsored contests on Xbox Live, and they are only going to increase. And if you love prizes and competition, that's a good thing. Finally, sponsors may decide to offer free skins of their products for you to use to customize your avatar. Who knows where that could lead… Quake Live teams with sponsored colors, just like we see in professional soccer and stock car racing? Just maybe.

So is id once more on the "inventing" track? This sounds like a way cool idea, and it just might work. Professional clans and all!

Link: GameSpot Preview Blog - Gaming News and Videos

Nice. Glad they didn't just play the squatter's game....

"They offered us a considered buyout option for it," added Carmack. "We just decided heck, we're only a few months into development of this, we'll just change the name."

Link: Quake Zero Name Changed Due to Domain Squatter - Shacknews

I'm all for it. I'm actually (well not so much lately due to time) a huge Enemy Territory fan.

"If Quake Live is successful, the next thing that we might look at is Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory," said Carmack, "but it's hard to see how we'd do the same treatment of it."

Wolfenstein's World War II setting was cited as the main reason behind the company's hesitation.

"You're running around fighting the Nazis and there's a billboard with [an advertisement] on it," said Carmack, noting the awkward nature of combining Nazis and Coke ads.

LOL. Yeah, I could see that being an issue. Although ET doesn't actually have any concrete Nazi references, at least in stock form, but yeah.

Link: Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Likely Not Getting the Quake Live Treatment, Says Carmack - Shacknews