Doc Searls
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Opday
On a medical frontier Adrian Gropper in the AI corner of the New England Journal of Medicine: The Medical AI Assistant as Publication, Not Device — Why Peer-Reviewed, Open-Source AI Belongs in the Standard of Care. From the abstract: "I argue that when a physician publishes a MAIA’s architecture, retrieval methodology, and validation results in a… Continue reading
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The Formerlies
This Knicks NBA championship run is the greatest of all time. Reasons: All this is debatable, of course. Just not right now. Continue reading
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Shunday
Other laws may apply I started to write something here, but turned it in to a whole post on its own: Customer Service Sample of One. In response to that, Don Marti pointed to Skylabs Audio and its YouTube channel. As it happens I was an audiophile many decades ago. Worked weekends at an audio salon… Continue reading
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Customer Service Sample of One
Our Samsung TV* and our Samsung soundbar/woofer no longer connect over bluetooth. Well, they do connect—both displays say they are connected—but the TV only plays through its own speakers. I called Samsung for help with this, but the phone maze robot said only texts would work at that time. Here’s the text monologue from Samsung:… Continue reading
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Sat a Day
Making more points Unless I write something new and provocative enough to generate fresh traffic, most visits to this blog come from searches on topics for which Google believes something I've written is relevant. Such is the case with a 2015 post called What are the balls on Prague’s spires called? I have a better answer now… Continue reading
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Flyday
Sigh high Nearing the end of my current travels. Sitting at Logan, about to board for O’Hare, and then the hour flight to Indianapolis, during which we will be in the air for nineteen minutes. Looking out the windows at planes taxiing, landing, and taking off, while container ships slide in and out of the… Continue reading
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Ellesday
And maybe even essential Thanks to her wise, literate, grounded, and funny videos (plus her music and much else), I have fallen in like with Elle Cordova. She's brilliant. Casually so, which makes her even more brilliant. The Big Why OG Anonoby's wingspan is 7'2". That's big reason why he made the tip-in that won the… Continue reading
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Fensday
Digressing we shall go I find myself in Boston, home of Fenway Park, in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood, half-named after The Fenway, now a parkway that runs along the Back Bay Fens, which is a jewel in the Emerald Necklace of Boston parks. I arrived at this digression while thinking of a title for today’s bloglings while… Continue reading
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Runday
QOTD "People used to have computers. Now computers have people." Whether I'm getting lightning notices for Indiana from my weather apps. I'm at LAX awaiting flights to Denver and then Boston. It's a big world. Continue reading
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Stutterday
Still a wonder to watch Just took in this Starlink launch from Vandenberg. Got a lot of pix. These things are common now, but I’m still a big kid, and space stuff excites me. I also seem to be here when launches aren’t happening, so it was great to catch this one. What you see… Continue reading
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Freshday
They know it, and they won’t blow it. Knicks in four. The Knicks take Game 2. In San Antonio. I only had a few very brief feelings of doubt. I was sure they were going to win, even when they fell behind, and even after the Spurs caught up and went ahead. Because the Knicks are… Continue reading
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Tubes
Naturally Washington Post: Human Ninja Turtles keep emerging from New York City manhole covers. Circling the drains BBC will be shutting off its Radio 4 service at 198 kHz longwave (LW) on 27 June. Being old in age and fashion, I travel with a radio and have always loved listening on the LW band, especially to… Continue reading
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Knicks Rule
I expected the Knicks to win tonight. I also expect them to win the NBA championship. Two reasons. One is what I said about the Cavaliers ten years ago: they’re a better story. And something I said about the Warriors in that post applies to the Spurs now: they feel entitled. They just beat the… Continue reading
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Lochnessday
But I could have No, I didn’t vote for Barack D. Obama Shaw. It’ll be great, as are all of his books David Weinberger‘s next book is Beautiful Particulars: How AI’s attention to the smallest of differences is reshaping our biggest ideas. Coming in October from MIT Press. Good piece. Like to see it posted… Continue reading
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Oopsday
Frogmarch I am not calendar-blind, but I am disabled around dates. I frequently get today’s date wrong, and dates for future stuff tend not to stick in my mind—or I have them wrong. But I am accurate about days of the week. So I know today is Tuesday. I also know Tuesday is Pre-Election (Primary)… Continue reading
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How DuckDuckGo Can Be a Hero
In Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, Al Ries and Jack Trout said, “Positioning is not what you do to a product. Positioning is what you do to the mind of the prospect.” So consider what’s happening in the minds of everyone who has long depended on Google to be what it has always been—a search engine for the Web—when… Continue reading
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Saturvice
A plan to enclose the public Web The Web is a public commons made of links. There is stuff at those links, almost all of it open to everybody, by design. The main way we see and use that stuff is with a browser. But what if your browser has AI of its own, and… Continue reading
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Active Devotion
Being old, I get lots of ads for Chair Tai Chi, Chair Yoga, and other positional challenges toward staying alive, limber, and not much closer to dead than you are without them. So this one occurred to me yesterday. And, since I can no longer draw (arthritis, talent), I handed illustration over to ChatGPT. Apologies… Continue reading
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Thusday
Lessons to be learned A Blue Origin rocket blew up at Cape Canaveral today. Continue reading
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From Losing the Web to Saving Us All
Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy—Thesis #7, The Cluetrain Manifesto Big AI subverts everything, including hyperlinks, which are what make the Web a web. With Big AI, you no longer surf from searches to sources across an ocean of links. You ask questions and get answers from the world’s largest Magic 8-Balls. They top the new hierarchy, which… Continue reading