Southern California (SoCal) – Doc Searls Weblog

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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February 9, 2025

Fire and Rain

Twenty-fifth in the News Commons series Southern California has two seasons: Fire and Rain. Rain didn’t begin this year until a few days after Fire ended apocalyptically, incinerating much of Altadena and Pacific Palisades. Now Rain is here, with the occasional atmospheric river flowing across the faces of hills and mountains whose beards were just… Continue reading

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January 10, 2025

The Los Angeles Media Dashboard

Twentieth in the News Commons series Fourth on the #LAfires That collection of tabs is my dashboard of major media that inform my writing about the #LAfires. There are tabs for five TV stations, one radio station, and one newspaper: KNBC/4 “4 Los Angeles” KTLA/5 “LA’s Very Own” KABC/7 “7 Eyewitness News” KCAL/9 “KCAL NEWS… Continue reading

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