Monthly Archives: May 2014

Why EULAs suck for the Internet of Things

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Doc Searls

I’ve been asked how EULAs — End User License Agreements — might affect the Internet of Things, now becoming better known as the IoT. Good question. The topic is hot: Development, however, is another story. There we are headed straight into a log-jam that … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Ideas, infrastructure, Internet, IoT, Personal, Personal clouds, problems, Technology, VRM | 1 Comment

Digging a new River for the NYTimes

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Doc Searls

Dave says “The New York Times home page needs a re-think.” But he doesn’t stop there, because thinking isn’t enough and complaining is worse than useless. (As I’ve often found. For example, here.) We need to hack up something new, … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Business, Culture, infrastructure, Internet, Journalism, Live Web, Outlining, problems, Social, Technology, VRM | 4 Comments

The Santa Barbara shooting

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Doc Searls

Update: 2am, Sunday 25 May: The Long Tail/Tale tellers have this whole thing under Wikipedian control at 2014 Isla Vista Shootings. So I’ll let them take it from here. Update: 12:37am, Sunday 25 May, and the main details are mostly … Continue reading →

Posted in News, Santa Barbara, UCSB | 3 Comments

On promise lost

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Doc Searls

I was digging around for links toward a post on Brian Knappenberger‘s crowdsourced Aaron Swartz documentary, The Internet’s Own Boy, when I learned that Malik Bendjelloul, the documentary filmmaker who won an Oscar last year for Searching for Sugar Man, was also dead — … Continue reading →

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Let’s pull news out of its hole

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Doc Searls

Most of what we call news is filler. The practice of filling space and time — stuffing “content” into a “news hole” — is a relic of an era when printing and broadcast space and time were limited, privately held, … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Broadcasting, infrastructure, Internet, Journalism, problems, Technology | 6 Comments

The best travel accessory, ever

Posted on May 10, 2014 by Doc Searls

Monster’s Outlets To Go power strip is the most useful many-purpose accessory I’ve ever thrown into a bag and plugged into a wall. Or a floor. It’s a light and compact four-outlet power strip with a short cord that wraps … Continue reading →

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Proof that Steve is dead

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Doc Searls

If Apple buys Beats, it will bite off more than it can eschew. Beats is a Big Brand. Everywhere you go, you see that red b over countless auditory canals, with red cords snaking down into pockets and purses. And … Continue reading →

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The long run

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Doc Searls

 Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a … Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation, Culture, Future, Geology, infrastructure, Internet, Personal | 7 Comments

@CoxComm: This time start with Santa Barbara

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Doc Searls

Back in the mid-’00s, a group of us in Santa Barbara got some balls rolling toward fiber-ing up the City and/or the County (by the same name), since it was clear that Cox Communications, our monopoly high-speed Internet provider, cared … Continue reading →

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