I'm giving a talk on Tuesday about a new standard that flips the script on cookie notices, surveillance, and the adtech fecosystem. Its IEEE P7012, better known as #MyTerms. It'll be on Zoom. More at doc.searls.com/2025/11/14/m...

Why I'd rather book the Death Star than use Tripadvisor for anything again: doc.searls.com/2025/11/14/l...

Big aurora going on: doc.searls.com/2025/11/11/l...

A question, plus another at the end: doc.searls.com/2025/11/06/w...

My latest: doc.searls.com/2025/10/20/t...

I've disliked the Dodgers since they divorced New York and married Los Angeles (which I do love, but not for its baseball). But Shohei Ohtani is possibly the greatest baseball player of all time, and he is playing in ours, now. Alas, for the Dodgers.

Is Facebook down? Every other site/service seems to be working, but Facebook is a spinning wheel right now.

Amazon's music on hold is the same as Rackspace's was before it failed in an attack and cost me years of email. Hope that's not a bad sign.

Do partisan statements atop US .gov websites violate the Hatch Act? See doc.searls.com/2025/10/03/q... My idea here is mainly to help reporters follow what's going on by visiting links to every federal branch and agency I could find. See what they're saying during the shutdown.

Laws won't get us privacy online. Contract will. I explain why: doc.searls.com/2025/09/11/p...

A long-belated obituary of sorts, with a bunch of bonus facts: doc.searls.com/2025/09/09/r...

One irony is that I'm pointing to this on a social medium and not putting it on my own Lovable Expert page: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Want to blow up cookie notices, and overturn the whole surveillance fecosystem? MyTerms is the way. I make the case here: doc.searls.com/2025/08/14/t...

Try seeing "mainframe" every time you see "AI." Because giant mainframes are what we're getting AI from, so far. "Personalized" is nice, but you don't drive. You're a passenger in a Waymo. We need truly personal AI. I've been writing about that here: doc.searls.com/personal-ai/

Just posted this: doc.searls.com/2025/08/02/g...

This post is about how both The Cluetrain Manifesto and The Intention Economy will finally come true. It's what many of us have been working toward since the last millennium: projectvrm.org/2025/07/15/t...

This is among the saddest things I've ever read: www.facebook.com/hammaduh/pos...

I make a bet (more like a wish) at the end of doc.searls.com/2025/05/21/online-sports-betting-is-for-losers/

Motherings: doc.searls.com/2025/05/11/t...

How "What's on?" is now mostly off. doc.searls.com/2025/05/05/t... HTs to @jeffjarvis.bsky.social and Clay Shirky.

Want privacy on your terms online? Come help us make that happen: projectvrm.org/2025/04/06/m...

Cory Doctorow, of @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy and much else, will be speaking at noon (Eastern) tomorrow here at Indiana University and on zoom. Cory is always brilliant, and I can guarantee an hour well spent. See you there. events.iu.edu/ostromworksh...

The word "agency" is hot now, but it wasn't when I wrote a chapter about it 13 years ago. In the meantime, some of us (#projectvrm, #CustomerCommons, #IEEE P7012) have been working on a standard that can give our agency a giant lever in the digital world: doc.searls.com/2025/03/23/real-agency/

After reading www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n... I am wondering if the VOA is still on the air. Anyone know?

Some guidance on tonight's full #LunarEclipse: doc.searls.com/2025/03/13/t...

If you care about reporting on government meetings, this will be a highly leveraged talk: doc.searls.com/2025/02/23/l... I'll host it, this Wednesday at Noon Eastern time. Free on Zoom. Register at the link in the post.

Zoom, in case you're here (and not just on Xitter and Threads), need help with this:

Zoe. Good dog.

It may not seem this way, but I've written a tough-love letter to @cvspharmacy (which seems not to have an account here yet) projectvrm.org/2025/02/12/a...

GRAND THEFT AUTOCRACY. Just a headline somebody might want to use.

Last year we started a project to download and preserve public data. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Since saving public data is in the news today — but is always needed — let’s talk about what you can do to help.

If you want regeneration after a disaster, and not just recovery, invest an hour at noon on Wednesday to zoom into this, which we're hosting live online from Indiana U: events.iu.edu/ostromworksh...

And Now the #HughesFire: doc.searls.com/2025/01/22/a... Latest in my series on #LAfires.

My latest on #journalism and the #LAfires: doc.searls.com/2025/01/19/t...

Jan Searls and I are trying to save our alma mater, Guilford College. The idea I posted here four years ago is still right on. Great to have my sis weigh in on it too: doc.searls.com/2020/12/23/g...

Toward the best possible #journalism on the #LAFires, I just posted How Facts Matter: doc.searls.com/2025/01/14/h... HT @calfire.bsky.social @LAist @abc7.bsky.social @latimes

My latest on the LAfires , now zoomed in on Brentwood, starring aerial firefighting: doc.searls.com/2025/01/11/a...

Ten aircraft, filling up at Encino Reservoir, are defeating the Palisades Fire on the ridge above the San Fernando Valley. Blogging about it here: doc.searls.com/2025/01/10/p...

My post on the #PalisadesFire. Includes data sources that can help you follow what's up (or down): doc.searls.com/2025/01/07/o...

Every wannabe chat is from an obvious scam. Just saying.

More: doc.searls.com/2025/01/02/a...

News: trunkli.org/2025/01/02/l...

Just posted this: doc.searls.com/2024/12/29/t...

The @spacex.extwitter.link launch from Vandenberg this evening at 5:48 Pacific will likely be a spectacular watch. If you're in central or south coastal California, dig it: spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl-11-3

Where am I?

I have two #Epson printer/scanners. Both won't scan unless you turn them off and on again. Am I alone with this problem?

#Overheard on a list: "Broadcasting isn’t dead, it’s just laid out nice!" Might we say the same for #journalism? (FWIW, by "broadcasting" the writer means the over-the-air kind.)

#Overheard: “Being old is a good time to catch up on all of music.”

"Marketing was not built for talking to people. It was built for typifying people." doc.searls.com/2023/12/29/g...