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February 16, 2026

Where Are We?

While the Web isn’t a place, we know it as one. The language we use to describe it is concrete and structural: domains at locations, with sites that are built and have pages that are authored, and contents that are uploaded and downloaded. For a generation or more, we have searched through the Web’s vast… Continue reading

adtech, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Customertech, Dave Askins, Economics, Freedom, IEEE P7012 MyTerms, Internet, Linguistics, metaphor, MyTerms (IEEE P7012), Personal, Personal AI, privacy, problems, Questions

March 1, 2025

Total News

27th in the News Commons series Nearly everything I’ve been writing in the News Commons series has come out of breakfasts Joyce and I have enjoyed with Dave Askins at the Uptown Cafe in Bloomington, Indiana. (A tech perspective: The Uptown is to Bloomington what Bucks of Woodside is to Silicon Valley.) At the most recent… Continue reading

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October 19, 2022

The Rhetoric of War

I wrote this more than a quarter century ago when Linux Journal was the only publication that would have me, and I posted unsold essays and wannabe columns at searls.com. These postings accumulated in this subdirectory for several years before Dave Winer got me to blog for real, starting here. Interesting how much has changed since I wrote… Continue reading

Cognitive Science, Internet, Linguistics, marketing, metaphor