Monthly Archives: March 2015

Captivity rules

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Doc Searls

In one corner sit me, Don Marti, Phil Windley, Dave Winer, Eben Moglen, John Perry Barlow, Cory Doctorow, Aral Balkan, Adriana Lukas, Keith Hopper, Walt Whitman, William Ernest Henley, the Indie Web people, the VRM development community, authors of the Declaration … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Internet, marketing, Personal, problems, Technology, VRM | 11 Comments

On taking personalized ads personally

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Doc Searls

In the pile of comments under the post on Facebook I wrote about here yesterday, Christopher Brock writes a long and thoughtful response that pretty much represents the thinking of the adtech business today. Since it’s hard to respond point-by-point in Facebook’s … Continue reading →

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Because freedom matters

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Doc Searls

After one of my reluctant visits to Facebook yesterday, I posted this there: If I were actually the person Facebook advertised to, I would be an impotent, elderly, diabetic, hairy (or hairless) philandering cancer patient, heart attack risk, snoring victim, … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Business, Cluetrain, marketing, Personal, Personal clouds, problems, Technology, VRM | 15 Comments

The most important event, ever

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Doc Searls

IIW XX, the 20th Internet Identity Workshop, comes at a critical inflection point in the history of VRM: Vendor Relationship Management, the only business movement working toward giving you both independence from the silos and walled gardens of the world; … Continue reading →

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A blast from the independent past

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Doc Searls

I just ran across a post (below) on my old blog from Tuesday, July 12, 2005: a few months less than ten years ago. It was at the tail end of what Tantek Çelik calls the Independent Web. He gives the time … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Identity, Internet, Outlining, Technology | 1 Comment

Sports as a propaganda laboratory

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Doc Searls

The other day a friend shared this quote from Michael Choukas‘ Propaganda Comes of Age (Public Affairs Press, 1965): This is not the propagandist’s aim. For him the validity of an image must be measured not by the degree of its fidelity, … Continue reading →

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Finally, maybe, getting a podcast rolling

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Doc Searls

Hi, Liveblog fans. This post continues (or plays jazz with) this liveblog post, following my podcast learnings, live. As an old radio guy and an inveterate talker, I think I should be good at podcasting. Or at least that it’s … Continue reading →

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