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(My Publish2 newsgroup links, mostly to “news” or commentary — and much of it Chicago Fire-related.)
Opinion recap: The public domain shrinks
“In a historic ruling on Congress’s power to give authors and composers monopoly power over their creations, the Supreme Court on Wednesday broadly upheld the national legislature’s authority to withdraw works from the public domain and put them back under a copyright shield.”
scotusblog.com 1/19 at 4:42 pm
2012 Chicago Craft Beer Festivals
A month-by-month look ahead at this year's Chicago-area beer festivals
chitownontap.com 1/19 at 10:07 am
Get a look at the new Chicago Fire jersey
“While some reports say Quaker will pay the Fire between $1.3 million and $1.5 million a season, the deal is believed to be close to the $2.5 million that Best Buy paid, sources told the Daily Herald.”
dailyherald.com 1/19 at 10:03 am
Netanyahu denies calling Haaretz and New York Times Israel's 'main enemies'
haaretz.com 1/19 at 10:00 am
Wilman Conde's Rights? What about the Chicago Fire's?
“The last important aspect for Wilman Conde and Major League Soccer was not that game but the 2010 MLS Expansion Draft that took place two months later on November 24, 2010. Chicago retained Conde's league rights for up to two years when they put him on their protected list. New York Red Bulls knew they would have to give some kind of compensation to Chicago when they first approached Conde this off-season. It might seem like a technicality but Chicago has been on the end of paying 'gatekeeper fees' before.”
hottimeinoldtown.com 1/13 at 5:16 pm
The Rise of the New Groupthink
“But it’s one thing to associate with a group in which each member works autonomously on his piece of the puzzle; it’s another to be corralled into endless meetings or conference calls conducted in offices that afford no respite from the noise and gaze of co-workers.”
nytimes.com 1/13 at 3:39 pm
MLS SuperDraft 2012: club-by-club
The Guardian asked supporter groups to help assess what clubs are looking for in the 2012 MLS draft.
guardian.co.uk 1/9 at 12:12 pm
Catholic Charities vs. Single-Sex Couples In the Age of Privatization
chicagomag.com 1/3 at 5:13 pm
Vaclav Havel, former Czech president, dies aged 75
guardian.co.uk 12/18 at 10:05 am
Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011: In Memoriam
Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter: "Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from, dare I say it, God.”
vanityfair.com 12/16 at 9:50 am
Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011
Christopher Buckley remembers: "Oh dear, the things he said about Reagan! The things—come to think of it—he said about my father. How did we become such friends? I only once stopped speaking to him, because of a throwaway half-sentence about my father-in-law in one of his Harper’s essays. I missed his company during that six-month froideur (another Christopher mot). It was about this time that he discovered that he was in fact Jewish, which somewhat complicated his fierce anti-Israel stance. When we embraced, at the bar mitzvah of Sidney Blumenthal’s son, the word 'Shalom' sprang naturally from my lips.”
newyorker.com 12/16 at 9:47 am
guardian.co.uk 12/16 at 9:29 am
blogs.laweekly.com 12/14 at 3:34 pm
‘Shroom for Improvement: The Politics of the Vegetarian Entree
washingtoncitypaper.com 11/18 at 1:09 pm
chicagoreader.com 11/18 at 1:08 pm
College Radio Heads: Off the Dial
“'College radio has traditionally been rooted in a community, a place and a time,' says Casey Rae-Hunter, deputy director of the Future of Music Coalition, a nonprofit group that has been involved in the fight to preserve college radio. 'It’s live and it’s local. There is a tremendous romance to that. Without it, college radio stations risk losing their uniqueness.'”
nytimes.com 11/4 at 12:45 pm
Fire make it official, appoint Klopas coach
chicagotribune.com 11/3 at 4:31 pm
Rekindle Fire tradition … starting with Klopas
“They all played or coached in the Fire’s glory days. They helped form the Fire’s winning tradition. … That none of these former Fire players and coaches except Klopas and Jeffries has a relationship with the Fire is a bad sign for a club that used to be seen as one of the most sought-after destinations in MLS.”
dailyherald.com 10/27 at 10:17 am
Chicago Fire 3 - Columbus Crew 2. "The Fire missed the MLS playoffs for the second straight year, but in the last eight weeks they reached a U.S. Open Cup title game, had seven wins in their final 10 games and remained in postseason contention into the final week.”
chicagotribune.com 10/23 at 9:22 am
Don’t think of it as a newspaper — it’s a data platform
Few newspapers "are thinking about their businesses in radically different ways — as content-generating engines with multiple delivery methods, or as platforms for data, around which other things can be built. USA Today appears to be moving in this direction, by opening up its data for others to use and even commercialize, following in the footsteps of The Guardian and its ground-breaking 'open platform.'”
gigaom.com 10/21 at 4:57 pm
Union Vs. Red Bulls Final Score: New York Blanks Philadelphia 1-0
Dane Richards's "head shot that bounced off goalkeeper Faryd Mondragon not only won the game and secured a playoff spot for New York, it also eliminated the Chicago Fire and Portland Timbers.”
philly.sbnation.com 10/21 at 9:45 am
D.C.'s Economies of Ale: Why is craft beer so expensive in Washington?
washingtoncitypaper.com 10/20 at 10:01 am
Bradley Burston: "The deal to bring Gilad Shalit back to his family is painful to Israelis bereaved by terror. It is, by any measure, chillingly dangerous. ¶ And it was the right thing to do. ”
haaretz.com 10/18 at 4:34 pm
Foreign owners 'want to end Premier League relegation and promotion'
“Several of the biggest Premier League clubs want to scrap relegation and promotion, according to the League Managers' Association chief executive, Richard Bevan.”
guardian.co.uk 10/17 at 10:06 am
Arrested Development is back but shouldn't we let cancelled shows die?
guardian.co.uk 10/17 at 9:53 am