October 2018 – Doc Searls Weblog

October 24, 2018

Is this a turning point for publishing?

Publishing and advertising both need to bend back toward where they came from, and what works. I see hope for that in the news today. In Refinery29 Lays Off 10% of Staff as 2018 Revenue Comes Up Short, by Todd Spangler, (@xpangler) of Variety reports, Digital media company Refinery29, facing a 5% revenue shortfall for the year, is Continue reading

adtech, advertising, Journalism, publishing, Technology

October 19, 2018

Journalism without Twitter

So I’m taking live notes at Blockchain in Journalism: Promise and Practice, happening at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, in the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the Columbia School of Journalism, to name the four Russian dolls whose innards I’m inhabiting here In advance of this gathering, Linux Journal, which I serve as editor-in-chief Continue reading

Journalism, Personal, problems, publishing

October 12, 2018

Toward no longer running naked through the digital world

We live in two worlds now: the natural one where we have bodies that obey the laws of gravity and space/time, and the virtual one where there is no gravity or distance (though there is time). In other words, we are now digital as well as physical beings, and this is new to a human Continue reading

adtech, advertising, Business, infrastructure, Internet, Personal, Santa Barbara, VRM