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  1. Boney M - Bahama Mama
    2. 11 May 2008 at 2:05pm
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    in post a href="http://hypem.com/go/track/547441"Disco Sunday #31: Eurodisco Punk Mother’s Day Edition/a from a href="http://www.discoworkout.com"The Workout/a.


  2. back Stateside - May 22,2008
    3. 21 May 2008 at 11:00pm
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    went to the Bahamas for a week. loved it!!! back to usual...


  3. MY 110TH SHOW HERE ON BTR...LETS PARTY LIKE IS ITS...UUHHH - May 03,2008
    4. 2 May 2008 at 9:00pm
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    2020 LOL...WE ARE GOING TO BAHAMAS TONITE..LISTEN TO SOME STEEL DRUMS..DRINK SOME BAHAMA MAMA'S...A LIL ISLAND DANCING..LETS CELEBRATE...MY 110TH SHOW HERE ON BLOGTALKRADIO..THANK YOU BTR FOR GIVING ME THE EXPERIENCE TO SHARE MY THOUGHTS, COMMENTS AND IDEAS WITH THE WORLD..THATS RIGHT EVERYONE THE WORLD...ITS BEEN AN EXPERIENCE AND MOST OF ALL THANK YOU ALAN LEVY FOR YOUR VISION


  4. Barry Estabrook
    5. 8 Apr 2007 at 8:00pm
    Barry Estabrook is a freelance writer for various publications. He has also published a novel entitled Bahama Heat. He joins us today to discuss his recent article in Gourmet Magazine, "Do I dare to Eat a ...


  5. BOOK THREE: Chapter 26
    6. 9 Oct 2007 at 8:38pm
    pEPISODE INTRO BY: Jessica, a Bahamas-based 7th Son fan br /THE STORY SO FAR BY: Sandtrooper TD-0013, of a href="http://adpov.net"A Different Point of View/a/p pSYNOPSIS: The villains' conspiracy is finally revealed./p pPROMOS: br /Nocturnal, the new podiobook by professional badass a href="http://scottsigler.podshow.com/"Scott Sigler/a br /Christiana Ellis' a href="http://spacecasey.com/"new podcast project/a br / a href="http://nobilis.libsyn.com/"Nobilis Erotica/a podcast/p pDirect link to the episode is a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/jchutchins/7thSon3-13.mp3"here/a./p pPosted by: a href="mailto:7thsonnovel@gmail.com"J.C. Hutchins/a/p


  6. How to Play Wii
    7. 19 Dec 2007 at 12:42am
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  7. President Bush Meets with Prime Ministers of the Bahamas, Barbados and Belize...
    8. 20 Mar 2008 at 12:00am
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    President Bush on Thursday said, "And we had a discussion like you would expect neighbors to have -- how do we work together for our mutual benefit. We talked about trade and tourism. We talked about how to make sure that our security needs are met without interrupting the ability for our people to travel as freely as possible and for the ability of people to be able to make a good living as a result of tourism."


  8. JIM BLACK AND FRIENDS UNDERGROUND CAFE - Apr 25,2008
    9. 24 Apr 2008 at 9:00pm
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    NEW ARTISTS FROM ALL GENRES OF MUSIC DEBUT THEIR MUSIC AND LYRICS. LISTEN TO LIVE INTERVIEWS OF NEW ATRISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. THE ONLY CAFE THAT CAN BOAST OF LISTENERS FROM CHINA, JAPAN ,AUSTRALIA, SAUDI ARABIA, PERU, NEW ZEALAND, UK, FRANCE AND BAHAMAS. DISCOVERING NEW MUSIC AND NEW ARTISTS.


  9. JIM BLACK AND FRIENDS UNDERGROUND CAFE - Apr 11,2008
    10. 10 Apr 2008 at 9:00pm
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    NEW ARTISTS FROM ALL GENRES OF MUSIC DEBUT THEIR MUSIC AND LYRICS. LISTEN TO LIVE INTERVIEWS OF NEW ATRISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. THE ONLY CAFE THAT CAN BOAST OF LISTENERS FROM CHINA, JAPAN ,AUSTRALIA, SAUDI ARABIA, PERU, NEW ZEALAND, UK, FRANCE AND BAHAMAS. DISCOVERING NEW MUSIC AND NEW ARTISTS.


  10. MM 120: Cruise Control - www.ManicMommies.com - (508) 644-8434
    11. 1 Jun 2008 at 10:57pm
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    We reconnect after a week off from the podcast and recount our experience seeing Sex and the City The Movie, share more stuff our listeners hate about motherhood, and make our big announcement about Escape 08. Pack your bags, ladies! We're going to the Bahamas!br/br/This episode is sponsored by Word Girl, now five days a week on PBS Kids Go!


  11. A Super Solar Flare
    12. 6 May 2008 at 2:00am
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    pimg src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/images/carringtonflare/frontpage.gif" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" / In September 1859, a solar flare erupted so intense that the explosion itself was visible to the human eye. A ferocious geomagnetic storm ensued in which Northern Lights descended as far south as Cuba, the Bahamas and Hawaii. Meanwhile, telegraph engineers disconnected their batteries and powered communications by electricity from the auroras! Could it happen again? /p pPlease vote for this podcast at a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825"PodcastAlley/a! /p pa href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2008_carringtonflare_story.mp3"Get this podcast story. /a/p


  12. Leland Clay
    13. 29 Apr 2007 at 12:42pm
    pThis was inspired by Chris' recent Morgan Freeman stories./p blockquoteLeland Clay? pThat's a name that brings back memories./p pHe was the town's banker, a decent enough fellow. Always dressed nice. Not too nice - just nice enough./p pYou know, Leland would leave candy out so the kids would come in to put money in their passbook accounts for college./p pLeland vanished one day. So did all the bank's money./p pHe turned up in the Bahamas - had himself a nice place there./p pNot too nice - just nice enough./p pWe burned it to the ground with him inside it, and the investigators got the rest of the money back./p pWant some candy?/blockquote/p


  13. Album Share: Taking A Cruise With The Citations!
    14. 14 Jan 2008 at 3:36pm
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    pimg src="http://maxmcmillan.net/vo/wp-content/uploads/citations.jpg" class="alignright" /A recent rescue sweep turned up this island treat from The Citations, a calypso/popular group that used to entertain vacationers at the Grand Bahama Hotel during the 1970s and 80s.br / The Citations were founded by the group#8217;s drummer and lead vocalist, Wendell #8216;Swain#8217; Armbrister in 1975. The group was a popular one in the Bahamas and worked in many of the hotels on Grand Bahama Island. The Citations played regularly until the 1990s but disbanded when their lead guitarist, Henry Garland, was murdered during a robbery in his home. Mr. Armbrister a href="http://www.thenassauguardian.com/social_community/285758094181219.php"died in 2006 at the age of 63/a. There is a recorded interview with Mr. Armbrister where he talks about the Citations and his conversion to born again Christianity a href="http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish/streaming-audio/Streaming_audio_intervi ew_with_The_Late_Wendel_Swain_Armbrister_recorded_April_26th_2005.shtml"here/a, and some more information about Mr. Armbrister and the group a href="http://bahamasentertainers.com/Artist/SwainCitations/SwainBio.html"here/a./p pThis recording is the first album (out of six) that the Citations recorded. The guys put out a lot of sound for a four piece, due to the seamless way their intricate individual parts fit together. Although they sound great on the #8217;standard#8217; tourist music, the more impressive tracks on the album are the ones where they either put a different spin on an older tune (Yellow Bird) or cover a tune not usually associated with island music (Annie’s Song)./p pOne thing that I wish I could share with everyone reading this is the way the album smells. I don’t know if this is the result of where it was sold or the environment it was kept in, but the inner sleeve has a really strong incense aroma. Every time I take the album out I feel like I#8217;ve stepped inside of a head shop. Have fun listening and as always, Enjoy!/p pDownload all the mp3s and cover art in one a href="http://www.vinylorphanage.com/wp-content/citations.zip"64 MB zip file/a.br / br clear="all" //p


  14. PodCamp Promo II: PodCruise Miami
    15. 31 Mar 2007 at 11:27am
    pa href="http://podcruisemiami.pbwiki.com/"br / img src="/images/PodCruiseLogo2.jpg" alt="PodCruise Miami logo" width="400" height="123"br / /a/p pYes, PodCamp really is going to be held on a cruise ship. The dates for ba href="http://podcruisemiami.pbwiki.com/"PodCruise Miami/a/b are now set: Friday, December 7 through Monday, December 10, 2007. /p pI#8217;m a href="/2007/03/19/podcamp-cruise-podcruise-2007/"still weighing/a the problem of a weak stomach at sea against the dreamy possibility of cruising to and through the Bahamas with family and friends #8212; and for a very reasonable price, at that (see a href="http://podcruisemiami.pbwiki.com/"the wiki/a for those details). /p pLet me know if you#8217;re going. It could help to convince me./p pThis audio promo is being included here for two reasons: 1) it#8217;s promoting what#8217;s sure to be one heckuva weekend 2) I#8217;m partial to the accents of Caribbean women img src='http://www.bryper.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' / /p pTechnorati Tags: a href="http://technorati.com/tag/PodCruise+Miami+2007" rel="tag"PodCruise Miami 2007/a, a href="http://technorati.com/tag/PodCruise" rel="tag" PodCruise/a, a href="http://technorati.com/tag/PodCamp" rel="tag" PodCamp/a/p p class="akst_link"a href="http://www.bryper.com/?p=275amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_275" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow"Share This/a /p


  15. Explainer: How Do I Get to Gitmo?
    16. 12 Jan 2007 at 9:17am
    How Do I Get to Gitmo? Tips for travelers to the Cuban military zone. By Daniel Engber On Thursday, a group of American protesters stood at a fence near the Guantanamo prison and demanded its closure. The activists, among them Cindy Sheehan, held a press conference in Havana before heading to the eastern end of the country to march on the military base. How do you get to Cuba to stage a protest? Fly in from the Bahamas, or another nearby country. The U.S. government keeps tight restrictions on any financial dealings with Cuba, which include travel to and from the country. The Treasury Department does grant travel licenses to certain people, like journalists, athletes, and Americans with immediate family in Cuba. But the feds aren't likely to make exceptions for peace protesters. Without a government license, the activists have to buy a round-trip ticket to Cuba from a third country, like the Bahamas or the Dominican Republic. When they get back to the United States, they'll be asked which countries they visited on their trip. If they're honest, they could be in trouble. When more than two dozen activists returned from a similar march in late 2005, they gave the U.S. customs officials a full accounting of their trip, including a list of the names and addresses of everyone who participated. The treasury sent threatening letters to nine of the activists a few months later, but none of them have heard anything since. (In theory, the government could levy fines and bring criminal charges against anyone who breaks the rules.) If you don't want to sneak in from a third country, you have to apply for a government license. Anyone who's visiting family, traveling on official government business, or working for the news media can get one, although they'll also need permission from the Cubans. (Havana has often denied entry to reporters from the Miami Herald, for example.) Special licenses are sometimes given out to students, freelance reporters, religious groups, performers or athletes, and people working on projects to aid "the Cuban people." There's also an exemption for "professional research," which includes attending international conferences that happen to be in Cuba. The organizer of this most recent protest told the Associated Press that Cindy Sheehan and the other marchers were eligible for a travel license because they are "professional human rights activists," and would be attending an international conference in Guantanamo on Wednesday. One of the 12 protesters did, in fact, fly direct from Miami on a government-approved airline. Once you arrive in Cuba, it's easy enough to travel to the city of Guantanamo, all the way at the eastern tip of the island. From there it's a short trip to a Cuban military checkpoint, where both the 2005 and 2007 protest marches were stopped. The American checkpoint—and the fence around the prison—are several miles farther away, down a road surrounded by landmines. Not everyone needs to pass through Cuba to get to the prison. Soldiers' spouses and journalists, for example, can get permission to take a direct flight to the facility without ever crossing into the rest of Cuba.


  16. Betsy and her husband Kris Jun 22, 2007
    17. 22 Jun 2007 at 10:10am
    a href="http://www.croncast.com/show/805/cks-2007-06-22.mp3"img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/pod_1.gif" alt="Croncast 2007-06-22 align="absmiddle" border="0" //a a href="http://www.croncast.com/show/805/cks-2007-06-22.mp3"Croncast - 2007-06-22.mp3/abr Show: #379br / Length: 28:48br / Size: 19.7mbbr / Format: mp3 pstrongBetsy and her husband Kris Jun 22, 2007/strong/p pa href="http://croncast.eventbrite.com" target="_blank"img src="http://www.croncast.com/images/may_20070521.jpg" border="0"/a/p Tickets are on sale now for the live show . . . a href="http://www.croncast.com/blog/756/Buy-your-tickets-now!-Croncast-Live-Naperville -croncast-live-show-The-Comedy-Shrine.php"get your's or find out morea/brbr a href="http://groups.myspace.com/croncastcronies"Join Croncast Cronies/a . . . thanks to all those signed up already!.br br Kris is funny toobr Well, you should be . . . you've been learning for years from mebr I should call you "lady ambiguity"br You are like the thing on Lost that traverses the forestbr I went through the basement windowsbr Locked in the basementbr I am proud of you Kris, there could have been a jar at your feetbr I call the house phone from my cellbr Could have opened it with a pair of scissorsbr You who took the certified to sell the house classbr Kris has a coldbr Ah, you are so dramaticbr So just tell your story Mr. Bbr I gave up on all of you trying save mebr Who's the dumb ass nowbr It sucks to be locked in a little box doesn't it?br You can hold it till she gets homebr I used the escape exit from the basementbr Turns out I am not as fat as I think I ambr Kris's body dysmorphic disorderbr How did you get out of the well?br Very easy, big man struggling out of a small holebr I'm glad it happenedbr When I met people who listen to the show last year they figured I weighed 800 lbsbr The commenter has to be new to the showbr Or it is Betsy's mombr Thank you for caringbr It doesn't look terriblebr Betsy has a lot of stuffbr I give Betsy a hard time and she gives me one toobr It is part of our schtickbr Bety's hair now looks like Eddie Vedder from 1991br Oh, I forgot to tell youbr You know how when you are old and you see young kids and say, "They are dressing like that now"br I almost laughed right at thembr The hair metal look appears to be back with the kidsbr You can mess with the Slayer they are not a hair bandbr The awkward dopey kidsbr Checking their hair in the mirrorbr How the hell did I not ever have clue?br That was you nearly 20 years agobr Sweet Pea let me tell you about these boysbr The guilty red neck pleasure that Kris has been indulging inbr No preventative care for yourself?br The water bottle carrierbr Get a really thick leather man beltbr One that says Denis Austin?br Nobr Bad ass dudes don't give away their belts, they wear them till they fall offbr Speaking of jugsbr I went T-shirt shopping for you tonight Krisbr Margarita Teambr Tommy Bahama| ZZ Top on the Apple TVbr Selling off the audio 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  17. ATS #67 - Happy New Year 2007 from Across the Sound
    18. 6 Jan 2007 at 6:40pm
    pHappy New Year everyone! 2007 is going to be the Year of New Marketing. Audio comments to +1 206 203-3255. In this episode, Sony's Flog, NBC, my book, Join the Conversation, WPP and much much more./p pa href="http://ripple.radiotail.com/102/ATS_67_-_Happy_New_Year_2007_from_Across_the_So und.mp3"Direct Download of ATS #67/a/p p0m - Intro from Jim Stolze in the Netherlands and audio comment./p p7m - I was interviewed on Susan Bratton's a href="http://www.dishymix.com/"DishyMix/a and also featured on 6 Pixels of Separation Podcast a href="http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/000816.html"Mash-Up 2006 Edition/a. Check them both out. Upcoming guests include Publitas' Greg Verdino, Susan Bratton and George Parker./p p12m15 - A classic audio comment from quot;Brandon the Consumerquot;/p p18m - A big announcement...the name of my new book is quot;Join the Conversationquot;; Here are 2 ways you can join the conversation by designing the cover of the book and contributing to Chapter 10 via a href="http://www.jointheconversationwiki.com"www.jointheconversationwiki.com/a /p p24m15 - Michael Seaton checks in with his quot;a href="http://www.theclientsideblog.com/archives/very-cool/case-camp-second-life-is-a- hit/"Client Sidequot; contribution /aon CaseCamp Second Life./p p34m25 - An audio comment from Grant in B.C. on quot;getting with the programquot; and SL compatability problems/p p47m45 - Winners amp; Losers: My winner is NBC for their quot;purposequot;-based reality programming - Biggest Loser and most recently, a href="http://www.jaffejuice.com/2007/01/youre_the_one_t.html"You're the one that I want/a. Loser comes in the form of an audio comment from Paul McEnany on Sony's flog, alliwantforxmasisapsp, which also received the first a href="http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/alliwantforxmasisapsp/all-i-want-for-xmas-i s-a-psp-wins-best-flog-2006-225461.php"Golden Poo Award/a. Boos to Sony and Zipatoni./p p59m30 - Playing out with January's Karaoke challenge, courtesy of a href="http://www.shakewellbeforeuse.com/"Ariel Waldman/a/p puMentions/u: Westin, Bahamas, Christopher Penn, Financial Aid Podcast, Second Life, crayon, crayonville, Sony, Zipatoni, PSP, NBC, The Biggest Loser, Grease, You're the one that I want, Julie Roehm, Wal-mart, George Parker, Susan Bratton, DishyMix, Mitch Joel, 6 Pixels of Separation, Greg Verdino, Digitas, Publicis, Ad Age, Michael Seaton, The Money Clip, Lima Charlie - Ants in my Pants, SkypeCast, Rex Briggs, WPP, Sir Martin Sorrell, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp, MySpace, Google, YouTube, Big Brother, YesButNoButYes, Cardie Mahoney, Second Life Herald, Gideon Television, Justin Timberlake/p div class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/acrossthesound?a=K5JovsSH"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/acrossthesound?i=K5JovsSH" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/acrossthesound?a=sDCNJXOw"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/acrossthesound?i=sDCNJXOw" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/acrossthesound?a=uOshKnA3"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/acrossthesound?i=uOshKnA3" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/acrossthesound?a=r72O4Nc3"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/acrossthesound?i=r72O4Nc3" border="0"/img/a/div


  18. Explainer: How Do Foreign Spelling Contests Work?
    19. 30 May 2007 at 10:16am
    Bees Overseas How do spelling contests work in other countries? By Michelle Tsai Close to 300 boys and girls will be stepping up to the mic at this week's Scripps National Spelling Bee. They hail from across the United States, as well as from countries like Germany, Jamaica, the Bahamas, New Zealand, and Canada. Wait, do non-English-speaking countries have spelling bees, too? Not exactly. Spelling bees are a particularly British and American phenomenon. The orthography of some Romance languages, like Spanish, is so regular that one can easily figure out the spelling of a word just by hearing the way it sounds. English, on the other hand, contains Latin, Greek, Germanic, and other roots, not to mention whole words borrowed from other languages. That's why an American schoolchild might get stuck with tricky words like ursprache and appioggiatura. Francophone nations aren't satisfied with mere spelling; they test for correct grammar, too. French speakers around the world enter Quebec's Dictée des Amériques, an international competition started in 1994. Contestants take a local multiple-choice test on grammar before moving on to the next rounds. At the finals, they'll hear a passage—composed for the contest by a famous author—read aloud four times. Each contestant must scribble down the text of the passage (word for word) in about an hour. Each mistake is a point, so zero—the score of Bruno Dewaele, one of the 2006 champions—is the best possible outcome. The Canadian dictée takes after France's Dicos d'Or, a contest that was discontinued a couple of years ago after more than two decades. The televised contest was so popular in France that families often took the dictée together. The Dutch also have a similar contest called Het Groot Dictee, which pits 30 regular folks and 30 celebrities against one another. Nonalphabetic languages have their own competitions. Chinese kids join dictionary contests, where they look up words as fast as they can. Unlike English, you can't completely decipher a Chinese character's pronunciation just by looking at it, and characters can have many components. Thus there are several ways to find words in dictionaries. Students can look for the character's radical, or semantic, root and search by the number of strokes in the character. If they know what the word sounds like, they can choose instead to look up the pinyin, or Romanized version, of the character. A third way involves a sort of Dewey Decimal System of words: By examining the strokes in the four "corners" of the character, expressing each corner as a number (a square is a six, for example), they can then use the resulting four-digit code to find a word in a special dictionary. Students also enter typing contests, where again the complexity of Chinese characters poses challenges. In Japan, where Chinese characters known as kanji are part of the language, you might see entire families entering the Kanji proficiency exam, known as the Kanken. There are 10 levels, each testing for skills like writing, pronunciation, and stroke order. Level 1 is the hardest and requires knowledge of about 6,000 kanji; in 2000 just 208 people passed this test.


  19. Squawk Box March 5 - Digital Music and Free Speech
    20. 5 Mar 2008 at 3:48pm
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    pThis morning a couple of posts related to the music industry caught my attention.nbsp; First, there was the a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/04/reznor_gift_spurned/" title="Reznor Gift Spurned"Nine Inch Nails story in the Register/a.nbsp; NIN have just put out their first new recording in ages, called Ghost, and have borrowed a page from RadioHead.nbsp; It#39;s a 4 CD compilation.nbsp; CD 1 is available in 320 kbps MP3 for FREE as a download.nbsp; If you want the whole set, you can buy it for $5 from their website, and have your choice of 320k MP3, or lossless audio (FLAC, or lossless iTunes), DRM free.nbsp; The Register notes that people have already made it available on bittorrent, and thousands of downloaders are downloading it via the Pirate Bay. The questions I posed to the panel were: /p ol liIf you were Nine Inch Nails, how would you respond to this?nbsp; /li liAnd what about if you#39;re the music industry?nbsp; /li liCan anyone make a living from recorded music anymore?/li /ol pRelated to that was a wonderful post from Kevin Kelly titled a href="http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php" title="1000 True Fans"1,000 True Fans/a.nbsp; Kelly#39;s observation is that the long tail is good for content aggregators like Amazon, and good for the consumer, but delivers little benefit to the content creator. His thesis is that if you can find the 1,000 quot;True Fansquot; who will buy whatever you put out then you have a business model, and one which can grow. AND he applies this idea to music, blogs, novels#8230; all kinds of art. So, large and small, content creators are learning to bypass distribution.nbsp; Will they need distribution in the future?nbsp; And what do distributors have to do to survive?/p pWe finished up with one last, fascinating, free speech story.nbsp; The NY Times published a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us/04bar.html?ex=1362286800amp;en=db5f7cbf82f cfdd7amp;ei=5124amp;partner=permalinkamp;exprod=permalink" title="NY Times Story"a story yesterday about Steve Marshall, an English travel agent who lives in Spain and sells trip to Europeans who want to go to sunny places, including Cuba/a.nbsp; Last October, 80 of his web sites suddenly stopped working.nbsp; They had been online since 1998, and despite the fact that he sells travel to Europeans, and the servers were located in the Bahamas, his registrar was located in Bellevue Washington #8212; the USA.nbsp; According to a Treasury Dept spokesperson, Marshall#39;s company quot;helped Americans evade restrictions on travel to Cuba and was a generator of resources that the Cuban Regime uses to oppress its peoplequot;.nbsp; He had made it onto a blacklist and eNom, his registrar, was required to shut down his sites.nbsp; Moreover, eNom has refused to release the domain names to him, effectively shutting down the business./p pTo me this raised all kinds of questions: Who really owns a domain name?nbsp; What process should be followed to put a web site onto a blacklist?nbsp; What recourse does the owner have?nbsp; And what value are constitutional guarantees of free speech?/p pIt was a good and very nuanced discussion, with surprising opinions offered from many quarters. nbsp;/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/saunders?a=kU4Zxq"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/saunders?i=kU4Zxq" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?a=143WxPF"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?i=143WxPF" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?a=cb8YW0F"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?i=cb8YW0F" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?a=QVQasvf"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?i=QVQasvf" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?a=mbNNw1f"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?i=mbNNw1f" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?a=U9FiX5f"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?i=U9FiX5f" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?a=mxCOFzF"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?i=mxCOFzF" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?a=smAwRcf"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?i=smAwRcf" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?a=hE5D3pF"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?i=hE5D3pF" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?a=g9rnlqF"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?i=g9rnlqF" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?a=XcvJLiF"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/saunders?i=XcvJLiF" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/saunders/~4/246344823" height="1" width="1"/
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