Monthly Archives: January 2012

Live blogging Politics of the Internet

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Doc Searls

So I’m at Micah Sifry’s Politics of the Internet class at the Kennedy School, and risk live-blogging it (taxing my multitasking abilities…) Some questions in the midst of dialog between Micah (@Mlsif) and the class (#pol-int)… Was there a $trillion … Continue reading →

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Surf’s up! Look north

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Doc Searls

According to this… … the Aurora is on. The Kp Index has hit 5, and a geomagnetic storm is on. Here’s today’s SpaceWeather on the matter. Follow the links there. Bear in mind that the aurora are curtains of light … Continue reading →

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2025 in 2012

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Doc Searls

Marcel Bullinga is a Dutch futurist and author of Welcome to the Future Cloud. Today I got pointed on Twitter to a Q&A with Bullinga by Aaron Saenz at SingularityHub. Interesting stuff. An excerpt: SH: Welcome to the Future Cloud seems … Continue reading →

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PR’s problems, 20 years later

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Doc Searls

I was near the end of my career as a PR guy when I wrote the essay below for the January 1992 issue of Upside. Since then Upside has been erased. Some bits of it still persist on the Internet Archive, but nothing … Continue reading →

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Can’t lose, in a way

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Doc Searls

I grew up in New Jersey and New York, rooting for the Giants. (And, in the Namath era, the Jets too.) Then, after 20 years in North Carolina (mostly as a college basketball fan), I lived in the Bay Area … Continue reading →

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Discovering Raditaz

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Doc Searls

Read here about Raditaz, which I hadn’t heard about before. It’s a competitor to Pandora. Some differences: unlmited skips, no ads, geo-location. I started out by setting up three “stations,” based on three artists: Lowell George, Seldom Scene and Mike … Continue reading →

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Ancient present

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Doc Searls

Reality 2.0 was my original blog: a pile of stuff I wrote before there were blogs. All of it is old now, but some of it still rings new. Since Reality 2.0 is deep in the Searls.com basement, I’ve decided … Continue reading →

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Happy to have been there

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Doc Searls

  That’s what many thought when they first saw the poster for Hassle House, in Durham, North Carolina, back in ’76 or so. As soon as any of the posters went up, they disappeared, becoming instant collectors’ items. At the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Books, Broadcasting, Business, Events, food, Friends, Fun, history, music, North Carolina, Personal, Places, radio, Sports | 4 Comments

What I’d like to say on the subway

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Doc Searls

When I was young, New York subways were dirty, noisy and with little risk of improvement. But, even if the maps weren’t readable (as with this 1972 example), there were lots of them. Now the subways are much nicer, on … Continue reading →

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No 2 SOPA

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Doc Searls

Today I’m in solidarity with Web publishers everywhere joining the fight against new laws that are bad for business — and everything else — on the Internet. I made my case in If you hate big government, fight SOPA. A … Continue reading →

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