Nick Dynice

Rodney was not the only one on KROQ to play MBV. I first heard of them when Gia played Only Shallow on Request Videos. I saw Swervedriver at The Troubadour in 93. Saw Medicine and Velocity Girl at the Whiskey around the same time. Didn’t get to see MBV until last year. Good stuff.Read more comments by Nick […]

Rodney was not the only one on KROQ to play MBV. I first heard of them when Gia played Only Shallow on Request Videos. I saw Swervedriver at The Troubadour in 93. Saw Medicine and Velocity Girl at the Whiskey around the same time. Didn't get to see MBV until last year. Good stuff.Read more comments by Nick […]

See all yall there.Read more comments by Nick […]

I the concept of property really a human instinct? Why habe there been cultures that have no word for "property"? I can see there has been some writing on the subject.I don't see any mention of property in the Constitution, Article 1, Section 8. So I don't see how there is a clash. There is only principal 1. "To promote the progress […]

http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20090324/1439024238#c3711. How is Choruss not like a Trojan Horse on the technology of education, where Choruss can have control over a network that could theoretically grow tighter?2. What will stops grandstandy, RIAA-sponsored legislators from passing a law that uses the logic: "You are not using Choruss, thus you m […]

Here is my remix of Helprin's quote:So here we have a city -- the hypothetical city and New York itself -- deeply dependent upon what innovationright protects but unaware of the threat it faces, even as, sector by sector, it begins to fall. Are you -- were you -- in the buggy whip business? Are you, or were you, a typesetter? An alchemist, town crier, s […]

Wow, the most seminal Techdirt posts of the last 5 years or so in a great presentation! Congrats, Mike! :) I'll be sending this to many people.Read more comments by Nick […]

Irving Azoff, manager of the Smashing Pumpkins and CEO of Ticketmaster, is one of the forces behind musicFIRST coalition. This has nothing to do with musician rights, and everything to do with funneling money to profiteers. http://techdirt.com/articles/20090312/1725054102.shtmlRead more comments by Nick […]

Unfortunately for McGuinnes, there is no "viable economic alternative," there is only death.Where was McGuinnes when the horse and buggy industry was limited down to a couple hundred Amish families in Pennsylvania when Henry Ford came along? They could have used a cry baby like him.Read more comments by Nick […]

Hey Mikey, don't get all Seth Godin/Cluetrain Manifesto on us! I go to other blogs for that! j/k.Wierd Harold, I am one of Mike's experts, and I have been out of school for 10 years. Insights from young people are exactly what we need. When was the last time someone over 35 came up with an innovative business model in the past 15 years? It is colle […]

Jonathan Schwartz tells some great tales of fending off offensive patent litigation threats from Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmber with counter threats, and how Kodak is a patent troll. […]

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