Monthly Archives: August 2012

Kidding around

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Doc Searls

Just discovered YouReputation while checking on what Drazen Pantic has been up to. (I met Drazen a decade ago while researching public Wi-Fi in New York for Linux Journal.) YouReputation is Drazen’s “viral search” engine. Here is the top result … Continue reading →

Posted in Awesome, Blogging, Fun, Ideas | 3 Comments

Digging in The Well

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Doc Searls

If posts seem a bit infrequent here (I went more than half a month between the last two posts), it’s because I’ve been busy elsewhere. One of those other places is The Well, the deep, durable and original (in several … Continue reading →

Posted in Events, Friends, Fun, Personal, VRM | Tagged | 1 Comment

Will the carriers body-snatch the Net with HTML5?

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Doc Searls

Nothing has creeped me out more lately than reading HTML5 – The Catalyst for Network as a Service? by Michael Crossey of Aepona, in Telco 2.0. His topic: NaaS, or Network as a Service. Makes me think, If the network is just a service, is it … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadcasting, Business, infrastructure, Personal, problems, Technology | 8 Comments

An Experience in Confusopoly

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Doc Searls

At home in Santa Barbara we get our TV from Dish Network. We’ve been customers of Dish since it was Echostar, back in the mid-90s. We’ve had dishes on five different houses over those years. Since we tend to do … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadcasting, Business, Call center hell, problems | 15 Comments