Category Archives: UCSB

Oil and Water on California’s South Coast

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Doc Searls

Oil in the water is one of the strange graces of life on Califonia’s South Coast. What we see here is a long slick of oil in the Pacific, drifting across Platform Holly, which taps into the Elwood Oil Field, … Continue reading →

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Public radio explodes in Santa Barbara

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Doc Searls

When we moved to Santa Barbara in 2001, the public radio pickings were pretty slim: 88.3 KCLU, a faint signal from Thousand Oaks. 88.7 KQSC, a strong local station on Gibraltar Peak carrying the classical music programming of Los Angeles’ KUSC. … Continue reading →

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The Santa Barbara shooting

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Doc Searls

Update: 2am, Sunday 25 May: The Long Tail/Tale tellers have this whole thing under Wikipedian control at 2014 Isla Vista Shootings. So I’ll let them take it from here. Update: 12:37am, Sunday 25 May, and the main details are mostly … Continue reading →

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Define the Internet

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Doc Searls

That’s my Idea For a Better Internet. Here’s what I entered in the form at http://bit.ly/i4bicfp: Define the Internet. There is not yet an agreed-upon definition. Bell-heads think it’s a “network of networks,” all owned by private or public entities that each … Continue reading →

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How Infrastructure Learns

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Doc Searls

I’ll be giving a talk by the title above, at 4pm in the conference room of the Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street in Cambridge. The occasion is the regular bi-weekly meeting of our Infrastructure Group — an informal collection of … Continue reading →

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Oil + Water

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Doc Searls

Four years and one day ago, we took a trip aboard a sailboat captained by our friend John Pfarr (who a few days later would later sail the same vessel to Hawaii, the South Seas and back — the dude … Continue reading →

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Fun with Infrastructure

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Doc Searls

Last month The Kid and I went to the top of the Empire State Building on the kind of day pilots describe as “severe clear.” I put some of the shots up here, and just added a bunch more here, … Continue reading →

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Come on by

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Doc Searls

For my readers in Santa Barbara, I highly invite you to come over to the open house, Noon-2pm today at CITS — the Center for Information Technology and Society at UCSB. This is a great bunch of people, doing great … Continue reading →

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