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Bring on the direct shipments of wine from anywhere to everywhere…

”States have broad power to regulate liquor,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority. ”This power, however, does not allow states to ban, or severely limit, the direct shipment of out-of-state wine while simultaneously authorizing direct shipment by in-state producers.”

”If a state chooses to allow direct shipments of wine, it must do so on evenhanded terms,” he wrote in an opinion joined by Justices Antonin Scalia, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer.

.. The decision puts in doubt laws in 24 states that ban out-of-state shipments, although the opinion suggests the laws will be upheld so long as in-state and out-of-state wineries are treated equally.

The Washington-based Institute for Justice says the 24 states that ban direct shipments from out-of-state wineries are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Vermont.

IBM released it’s anticipated Blog policy today – created as a team effort using a Wiki – by bloggers, for bloggers.

Dan’s launched what will probably be the first of many ventures with a "call to arms"…

"Let’s build a space where people can find news and opinion they can trust, and information that helps us in our daily lives."

It’s a small nit (like very small) but it annoys the crap out of me when people put the RSS feed/XML button at the bottom of pages. Stick it up front so us lazy buggers can drag and drop while reading the post that bought us to your site…

Tom reports on IBM’s plans to launch a major blog initative next week.

One of the key things I advise companies to consider as they look at blogging is how their company’s behavioral norms will manifest themselves in the blogosphere. Both in how they engage in dialogue and drive it. IBM has an incredibly deep technology bench so it will be very interesting to see what topics the dialogue is centered on and the tone that develops.

Now I can know…. A dog translation service over the phone…