Tag Archives: Business

Exploring the business behind digital media’s invisibility cloaks

Posted on December 10, 2016 by Doc Searls

  Imagine you’re on a busy city street where everybody who disagrees with you disappears. We have that city now. It’s called media—especially the social kind. You can see how this works on Wall Street Journal‘s Blue Feed, Red Feed … Continue reading →

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Nobody else owns our experiences

Posted on August 3, 2016 by Doc Searls

Who Owns the Mobile Experience? is a report by Unlockd on mobile advertising in the U.K. To clarify the way toward an answer, the report adds, “mobile operators or advertisers?” The correct answer is neither. Nobody’s experience is “owned” by … Continue reading →

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Dear Adobe, Please buy Flickr

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Doc Searls

Flickr is far from perfect, but it is also by far the best online service for serious photographers. At a time when the center of photographic gravity is drifting form arts & archives to selfies & social, Flickr remains both … Continue reading →

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No 2 SOPA

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Doc Searls

Today I’m in solidarity with Web publishers everywhere joining the fight against new laws that are bad for business — and everything else — on the Internet. I made my case in If you hate big government, fight SOPA. A … Continue reading →

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The Infrastructure Dynamic

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Doc Searls

I just posted Rupert Murdoch vs. The Web, over at Linux Journal. In it I suggest that the Murdoch story (played mostly as Bing vs Google) is a red herring, and that the real challenge is to free the Web … Continue reading →

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