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Some Important Thoughts About Internet Governance

(David Post)David Bollier and John Clippinger have an extremely interesting short essay on “The Next Great Internet Disruption: Authority and Governance” that is well worth reading.  They start from Reed’s Law: When we look back on the past twenty years of Internet history, we can more fully appreciate the prescience of David P. Reed’s seminal 1999 [...]

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Colin Davis, R.I.P.

(David Post)British conductor Colin Davis died this past Sunday, age 85.  Davis was an extraordinarily gifted musician – to my ears, the greatest conductor of the last 30 years* (the one possible exception: James Levine).  He holds a special place in my affections because he “taught” me what conductors do, and how important they are.  In [...]

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Note to Trademark Office: This is Not Trademarkable

(David Post)ATX Brands LLC, which owns Bikinis Sports Bar and Grill (in Bikinis, TX), has obtained a federal trademark for the mark “Breastaurant” in connection with “restaurants and bars.”  [I was hoping that this Yahoo story got it wrong somehow - but I checked at the Trademark Office site, and indeed, the term has been registered [...]

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