Tag Archives: “New York Times”

Today’s tabs

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Doc Searls

Market intelligence that flows both ways. It’s about the real Internet of Things. Not the Compuserve+Prodigy+AOL variety in development today. Unless we build on open source and standards, the IoT won’t be near as big as Business Insider says it … Continue reading →

Posted in Links | Tagged "New York Times", Bitcoin, CompuServe, Darren Herman, google, Heartbleed, Mozilla, Unix | Leave a comment

Solved Science Theater 2010

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Doc Searls

This morning, while freezing my way down 8th Avenue to Piccolo on 40th to pick up a couple of cappuccinos, I paused outside the New York Times building to admire its stark modern lobby as KNX radio delivered the latest … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Blogging, Broadcasting, Events, Journalism, Links, music, problems, Quote, Technology, Travel | Tagged "New York Times", Christine Bord, Christopher Tierney, Dave Itzkoff, Foxwoods Theater, Hamilton Boardman, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Natalie Mendoza, On Location Vacations, Spider-Man | Leave a comment

Food for re-thought

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Doc Searls

The summary paragraph of a great column by Tom Friedman: A dysfunctional political system is one that knows the right answers but can’t even discuss them rationally, let alone act on them, and one that devotes vastly more attention to … Continue reading →

Posted in history, Ideas, infrastructure, Journalism, News, Politics, Science | Tagged "New York Times", Tom Friedman | 4 Comments

A newspaper progress report, sort of

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Doc Searls

Back in October 2006, I posted Newspapers 2.o, listing ten “hopefully helpful clues” for papers needing to adapt to a world that would only get more and more of its news online. I ran the same list in August 2007, … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Journalism, Live Web | Tagged "LA Times", "New York Times", newspapers, newspapers 2.o, Tony Pierce | 7 Comments

Do we want “smart” utilities?

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Doc Searls

‘Smart’ Electric Utility Meters, Intended to Create Savings, Instead Prompt Revolt is a New York Times story that perhaps suggests a deeper truth: People don’t want their utilities to get smart on them. Except, occasionally, on request. Like, when a … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Ideas, infrastructure, Life, Politics, problems, Science | Tagged "New York Times", infrastructure, utilities | 25 Comments

Because advertising encourages Alzheimer’s

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Doc Searls

I dunno why the New York Times appeared on my doorstep this morning, along with our usual Boston Globe (Sox lost, plus other news) — while our Wall Street Journal did not. (Was it a promo? There was no response … Continue reading →

Posted in Berkman, Business, Future, Ideas, infrastructure, Journalism, Live Web | Tagged "Boston Globe", "New York Times", advertising, Apple, Berkman Center, Ethan Zuckerman, google, Patricia Cohen, SEO, Technorati, TimeMachine, traffic, Wall Street Journal, Yochai Benkler | 12 Comments

Why WQXR is better off as a public radio station

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Doc Searls

In his comment to my last post about the sale of WQXR to WNYC (and in his own blog post here), Sean Reiser makes an important point: One of the unique things about the QXR was it’s relationship with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Business, Future, infrastructure, Live Web, News, Places, problems, radio, VRM | Tagged "New York Times", HD Radio, K-Mozart, KCLU, KFAC, KKGO, KUSC, projectvrm, Public Radio Player, RDS, Sean Reiser, VRM, Washington Post, WCPE, WCRB, wdbs, WETA, WFMR, WGMS, WGN, WNYC, WQXR, WTOP | 115 Comments

Journalism and Net Nativity

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Doc Searls

I don’t go to TV for Journalism any more, even though I’m sure there’s plenty left: needles scattered thorugh a haystack of channels and program schedules that have become so hard to navigate on satellite and cable systems that it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Journalism, problems | Tagged "Dave Winer", "Jay Rosen", "New York Times", bloggingheads, bug catching, cnn, Deborah Tannen, debugging, EmanciPay, Journalism, Maureen Dowd, Scott Rosenberg, tv | 8 Comments

Infinite play

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Doc Searls

Video Is Dominating Internet Traffic, Pushing Prices Up says the headline of a piece by Saul Hansell in the New York Times. Its first three subheads say, File sharing has been usurped by legitimate video services, The very heaviest users … Continue reading →

Posted in Future, Ideas, Past, problems, VRM | Tagged "New York Times", "Saul Hansell", "triple-play", carriers, framing, internet, prices, traffic, video, Web | 3 Comments