I just ran across an old favorite site of mine – well favorite work-related site. CyberTelecom tracks federal Internet law and regulations. It started in 1997. I think I used to visit it back when I worked for an ISP – in 1997.

They appear to be tracking everything happening with the FCC, they track items by topic, and they track/research wonderfully nerdy things on their blog, such as Stealth Trademarks, where they talk about the legality of using trademarked names in hidden places such as meta-tags.

I find stealth trademarks to be a very interesting topic. (Remember, I used to be a librarian.) I think they have just posted the first in a series of blog posts but so far using trademark names in meta-tags is illegal. I’ll have to wait for the updates to learn about keywords and pop-ups.

Finally, and possibly of greatest interest to this audience, CyberTelecom has just updated their list of ISP associations. They don’t list any in Minnesota – but they do mention that the Minnesota Internet Service Provider Association now leads to an adult site. I don’t remember anything called the Minnesota Internet Service Provider Association, but I do remember the Minnesota Internet Service Trade Association. I guess I’m not inspired enough to see if that leads to an adult site too. But I do appreciate the list of associations.