Monthly Archives: June 2017

Great Coffee vs. Awful Marketing

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Doc Searls

My loyalty to Peet’s Coffee is absolute. I have loved Peet’s since it was a single store in Berkeley. I told my wife in 2001 that I wouldn’t move anywhere outside the Bay Area unless there was a Peet’s nearby. That pre-qualified Santa … Continue reading →

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On cryptocurrencies, blockchain and all that

Posted on June 21, 2017 by Doc Searls

Take a look at this chart: CryptoCurrency Market Capitalizations As Neo said, Whoa. To help me get my head fully around all that’s going on behind that surge, or mania, or whatever it is, I’ve composed a lexicon-in-process that I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Blockchain, Business, Cryptocurrencies, Distributed Ledgers, education, history, infrastructure, Internet, Links, money, News, Research, Science, Technology | 5 Comments

Google enters its chrysalis

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Doc Searls

In The Adpocalypse: What it Means, Vlogbrother Hank Green issues a humorous lament on the impending demise of online advertising. Please devote the next 3:54 of your life to watching that video, so you catch all his points and I don’t need to repeat … Continue reading →

Posted in adtech, advertising, Apple, Business, Customertech, Future, infrastructure, marketing, News, problems, Technology, VRM | 1 Comment

What are the lessons people most often learn too late in life?

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Doc Searls

That’s the question asked by Quora here. I’ve camped on our planet for awhile now, so I wrote a few answers. Here they are: I doubt people learn the following lessons “most often” or “too late,” but I still hope they help. The … Continue reading →

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Daily Tab for 2017_06_09

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Doc Searls

#Publishing When I heard that Backchannel would be moving to Wired while Google’s Contributor service (“buy an ad removal pass for the web”) was not only rolling out, but already deployed by some publishers (e.g. by Business Insider UK)—and while Wired (with the … Continue reading →

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Daily Tab for 2016_06_07

Posted on June 7, 2017 by Doc Searls

For today’s entries, I’m noting which linked pieces require you to turn off tracking protection, meaning tracking is required by those publishers. I’m also annotating entries with hashtags and organizing sections into bulleted lists. #AdBlocking and #Advertising Jack Trout died. Positioning: The … Continue reading →

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The Daily Tab for 2017_06_06

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Doc Searls

Required viewing: A Good American, a documentary on Bill Binney and the NSA by @FriedrichMoser. IMHO, this is the real Snowden movie. And I say that with full respect for Snowden. Please watch it. (Disclosure: I have spent quality time with both Bill and … Continue reading →

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Loose Links

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Doc Searls

Jamie Bartlett in The Guardian: Forget far-right populism – crypto-anarchists are the new masters. Well, yes, no and maybe. Hard to tell. At least it’s a good look around many curves. Says here Robert E. Lee was a bad guy. Specifically, … Continue reading →

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