Bloomington
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The Continuing End of OTA TV, Part 1
I’ve split this post into two parts, because it’s important to unpack how legacy TV works, and why the whole thing is falling apart, with OTA—over-the-air—TV dying first and fastest. Here is Part 2. I haven’t watched Jimmy Kimmel Live, or any late-night talk shows since Carson, and I didn’t watch much of him either.… Continue reading
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Saturday
Blogging will be light. Big Granfalloon day. Everything, just not all at once. Ted Gioia gives ten warning signs that the "knowledge system" is collapsing. I'm in that system, as are all serious journalists and academics (I work in both worlds). So are all technologists. (I'm kinda that too.) What will replace it? Don't be… Continue reading
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Departments of Correction
Fortunately, we've already got it here: unlimited 2GB/s symmetrical service for $59/month. Bloomington's city fiber rollout has been paused by the mayor. Here's square's story about it, which is also in Bloomdocs—an example of a news commons at work. One more reason to move off Chrome? A URL that begins with chrome-extension://efwhaddfugisallthisjiveepwnj/ before it gets to http:// is not… Continue reading
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Musictown
The final round of the 10th Indiana International Guitar Competition just happened, here, as well as in the natural world. We saw it in the latter. Amazing performances. Bloomington is a fabulous small city anyway, but the Jacobs School of Music—and the whole music scene here—puts Bloomington over the top for us. In addition to… Continue reading
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How communities without one can build a local library
That’s what Charlie Schweik and friends will be talked about in the Beyond the Web series at Indiana University, hosted by the Ostrom Workshop and the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. The salon was held at the latter for locals and on Zoom for the world, at Noon Eastern time on Wednesday, December 4th. (Upcoming salons are… Continue reading
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A very local storm
It was a derecho, or something like one. The gust front you see in the third image here — —looks a lot like the storm front in the top image above (via Weatherbug, storm tracker view). I’d experienced one twelve years ago, in Arlington, Mass. It felt like a two minute hurricane, and when it… Continue reading
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The Online Local Chronicle
Ninth in the News Commons series. After we came to Bloomington in the summer of 2021, we rented an apartment by Prospect Hill, a quiet dome of old houses just west of downtown. There we were surprised to hear, nearly every night, as many police and ambulance sirens as we’d heard in our Manhattan apartment.… Continue reading
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We Need Wide News
Second in the News Commons series. How do people get news where you live? How do they remember it? For most of the industrial age, which is still with us, newspapers answered both those questions—and did so better than any other medium or civic institution. Newspapers were required reading, delivered daily to doorsteps, and sold… Continue reading