Blogging
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Thursday
And having any readers is better than having none. So far (2:30 pm), this blog post has had three visitors. (Update at 11pm: eleven visitors.) And I’m not even sure those visitors have read any of this. Meanwhile, Online Sports Betting is For Losers is now up to 3,252 visits, second all-time behind Death is… Continue reading
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Filings
Throwing blogs on the fire. I was thinking about posts as files, blogs as outlines, and outlines as directories. In geek-speak, directories look like this: something/something/something/something/file. In URLs, each something is also called a folder, because that's the frame in which putting files somewhere makes sense. Anyway, I have the top level of a directory… Continue reading
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Hear in Near L.A.
Just loving the hang time we got yesterday with Tony after two long flights and one short drive from LAX. Continue reading
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Movements
Really. Click on it. This is scary. Via Wndy.com. Windy’s views are the best. Watch the storm activity here: I suggest rocketing his ashes into space. I’m still shocked and sad to know Dave Täht has died, but I only have one source of information so far, and it says nothing about where and how… Continue reading
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There They Go
Also, killing surveillance, finally, maybe. Kaliya lays out some good themes for IIW. My faves: S__olving the identities of AI agents and Proof of Personhood and First Person Credentials. Unsubscribe now and skip the 7-day free trial. Is there a term of art for Substack newsletters that hide half of what's written behind a tease-wall? (Maybe "teasewall"… Continue reading
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A Short History of Now
So there must be something to it. Watch how often people interrupt each other with “So—.” Also watch for speeches starting with “So—.” The first speaker I heard do that was Larry Lessig, one of the world’s best, back in the aughts. Which is why the Web is still for writers. All writers. The Longing is… Continue reading
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Riding on Rivers
Just learned about this, here. Thank you, Andy Sylvester! Continue reading
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Tweeting a Blog
For eight years I blogged here in a style that was basically tweeting with titles. Now I’m doing it again here, with Wordland. David Weinberger explains why it’s awesome. Continue reading
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Blogging like it’s 1999
Testing Wordland, about which Dave says more here. This is my second blog, and my first WordPress one. It launched in 2007. My first blog is this one, which (courtesy of Dave) started in the last year of the prior millennium. I had hair then, and wore glasses. Is this true? I want more sources.… Continue reading
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2024_10_01 Postings
A radio item Over on my blog about infrastructure, I put up a brief post about WART, volunteer-powered community radio station with studios in a railroad caboose, that was lost in the flood that just devastated Marshall, North Carolina. Write once, publish everywhere Dave turned me on to Croissant today. Looks good. I’d even be… Continue reading
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Blog + Newsletter
Newsletters are all the rage now. In recognition of that, I blogged here two years ago about the idea of writing a solo newsletter. Since then I’ve been co-producing this one with Katherine Druckman at Reality 2.o. It’s a Substack one, so I know how that game works on the production as well as the… Continue reading
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Feed Time
Two things worth blogging about that happened this morning. One was getting down and dirty trying to make DALL-E 3 work. That turned into giving up trying to find DALL-E (in any version) on the open Web and biting the $20/month bullet for a Pro account with ChatGPT, which for some reason maintains its DALL-E… Continue reading
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On Blogs
Thoughts I jotted down on Mastodon*: 1) Blogs are newsletters that don’t require subscriptions. 2) Blogrolls are lists of blogs. 3) Both require the lowest possible cognitive and economic overhead. 4) That’s why they are coming back. I know, they never left. But you get my point. *I just learned that my Mastodon account is… Continue reading
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All home now
From 2007 until about a month ago, I wrote on three blogs that lived at blogs.harvard.edu. There was my personal blog (this one here, which I started after retiring my original blog), ProjectVRM‘s blog (also its home page), and Trunkline, a blog about infrastructure that was started by Christian Sandvig when he and I were… Continue reading
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Truckin’ forward
Welcome to my new old blog. My old-old (but not oldest) blog—the one I’ve written since 2007—is still there, in complete archival form, at blogs.harvard.edu/doc, where it has always been. It is now also here with a different URL: doc.searls.com, which had pointed at blogs.harvard.edu/doc for many years. Now it points here, to its native… Continue reading
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Moving on
I started this blog in August 2007 after the host for my original blog went away. (That blog has been preserved, however. Find it at http://weblog.searls.com.) At the time I was told something like “Hey, Harvard has been around since 1636, so your blog will last a long time here.” Well, the duration will be… Continue reading
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The Long View
This blog has been looking like my personal obituary section, and I suppose it is. While I promise to change that, for this post I’ll stick with the theme, and surface some correspondence with an old friend who recommended that I read The Five People You’ll Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom. In the correspondence… Continue reading
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The Matrix 4.0
The original Matrix is my favorite movie. Not because it was the best movie. Rather because it’s the most important, at least for our Digital Age. (It’s also among the most rewatchable. Hear that, Ringer? Rewatch the whole series before Christmas.) And now the fourth Matrix is coming out: The Matrix Resurrections. Here’s the @TheMatrixMovie‘s… Continue reading