Monthly Archives: March 2021

How anywhere is everywhere

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Doc Searls

On Quora, somebody asked, Which is your choice, radio, television, or the Internet?. I replied with the following. If you say to your smart speaker “Play KSKO,” it will play that small-town Alaska station, which has the wattage of a … Continue reading →

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Trend of the Day: NFT

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Doc Searls

NFTs—Non-Fungible Tokens—are hot shit. Wikipedia explains (at that link), A non-fungible token (NFT) is a special type of cryptographic token that represents something unique. Unlike cryptocurrencies such bitcoin and many network or utility tokens,[a], NFTs are not mutually interchangeable and are thus not fungible in nature[1][2] Non-fungible tokens … Continue reading →

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Why is the “un-carrier” falling into the hellhole of tracking-based advertising?

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Doc Searls

For a few years now, T-Mobile has been branding itself the “un-carrier,” saying it’s “synonymous with 100% customer commitment.” Credit where due: we switched from AT&T a few years ago because T-Mobile, alone among U.S. carriers at the time, gave customers … Continue reading →

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The eventual normal

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Doc Searls

One year ago exactly (at this minute), my wife and I were somewhere over Nebraska, headed from Newark to Santa Barbara by way of Denver, on the last flight we’ve ever taken. Prior to that we had put about four … Continue reading →

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Enough with the giant URLs

Posted on March 10, 2021 by Doc Searls

A few minutes ago I wanted to find something I’d written about privacy. So I started with a simple search on Google: The result was this: Which is a very very very very very very very very very very very … Continue reading →

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A toast to the fools standing high on broadcasting’s hill

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Doc Searls

In Winter, the cap of dark on half the Earth is cocked to the north. So, as the planet spins, places farther north get more night in the winter. In McGrath, Alaska, at close to sixty-three degrees north, most of … Continue reading →

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