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The Role Of Consortia In The Internet Age

january - february 2010
Editor's Note

Let’s All Get Together

What if they gave an Internet and nobody came?
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Editorial

Enabling a New Age of Collaboration

The Internet and the Web provide the technical tools to enable an unprecedented wave of global collaboration. What we need now are governance and legal tools equal to the opportunities at hand.
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Feature Article

Dissecting the Consortium: a Uniquely Flexible Platform for Collaboration

For decades, legal structures of various kinds have been developed to support collaborative activity, all referred to generically as "consortia." While superficially quite different, each addresses the same core needs in its own way. In this article, I examine the ever versatile concept of the consortium, a uniquely appropriate vehicle for the rapidly proliferating collaborative initiatives of the digital age.
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Standards Blog

Here We Go Again: Video Standards War 2010

What exactly is it about the video/consumer electronics industry that craves a good standards war every few years? Whatever the answer, it's that time again. Only this time, with a new twist.
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Introducing

The Alexandria Project, Chapter 1

Please meet IT everyman Frank Adversego. And also begin to discover the dark deeds that are unfolding in the Library of Congress.
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Consider This

The New Yorker Story (J.D. Salinger, R.I.P)

Once upon a time, a roustabout named Harold Ross created a magic magazine that managed to define sophistication while remaining accessible to everyone. When he died, his successor and authors like J.D. Salinger set out to redefine what sophistication in fiction was (supposed to be) all about, and a new type of story was born. Pity, that.
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