January 2023 – Doc Searls Weblog

January 30, 2023

Does Sirius XM sound far worse than listening to music on YouTube?

That’s a question asked on Quora and deleted (for reasons unknown) before I posted my answer. So I’m posting my answer here. This is like asking if a car radio sounds better than a TV. Because it’s a matter of where, how, when, and what, more than a matter of sound. There is some overlap Continue reading

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January 12, 2023

FM Stations Down on Gibraltar Peak

[Update: 11:20 AM Wednesday 18 January] Well, I woke this morning to hear all the signals from Gibraltar Peak back on the air. I don’t know if the site is on generator power, or if electric power has been restored. This pop-out from a map symbol on Southern California Edison’s Power Outage Awareness Map suggests the Continue reading

Broadcasting, california, data, infrastructure, Journalism, Santa Barbara

January 11, 2023

Heavy Weather

Most of California has just two seasons: rain and fire. Rain is another name for Winter, and it peaks in January. In most years, January in California isn’t any more wet than, say, New York, Miami or Chicago. But every few years California gets monsoons. Big ones. This is one of those years. The eighteen gallon storage Continue reading

data, Nature, Santa Barbara, weather

rain, storm, wind