Doc Searls Weblog→ Moan Day
2026-02-16 Cycloptery Seventy-two hours since my cataract surgery and nothing is better. The cornea of my left eye is still swollen and I'm essentially blind (meaning my vision is 20/infinity. It also feels better closed than open, which I'm not sure is …›
Poynter→ Bystander video is driving the biggest stories in America. The next era of journalism will be built on verifying it.
2026-02-16 Bystander and surveillance videos keep driving major news stories. The killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal officers in Minneapolis. Brutal takedowns of lawful citizens and aggressive clashes […] The post Bystander video is driving t …›
Poynter→ Want to be a better editor? Start here.
2026-02-16 When I coach young journalists, one of the first things I tell them is a lesson I’ve learned myself many times: It’s not where you work, but who you work […] The post Want to be a better editor? Start here. appeared first on Poynter. …›
Poynter→ Kristi Noem’s ‘right people voting’ remark ignites a media firestorm about democracy
2026-02-16 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. What does the future of American elections look […] The post Kristi Noem’s ‘right people voting’ remark ignites a media fi …›
American Press Institute→ Convene to envision shared futures through art and storytelling
2026-02-16 In 2022, AL.com was covering a dramatic increase in homicides. The news outlet partnered with The Birmingham Times, a local Black-owned newspaper, to offer more avenues for community building and solutions storytelling by highlighting the people and pr …›
Poynter→ A viral claim about chickenpox vaccines is spreading. Here’s what the evidence says.
2026-02-16 Most people have a virus hiding in their cells. It’s probably been there for years, and it could reactivate anytime. This virus, varicella-zoster, causes both chickenpox and shingles, a painful […] The post A viral claim about chickenpox vaccin …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Some Day
2026-02-15 Now, let's try that with a human body part Tom's Hardware: In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Love
2026-02-14 The first thing my wife heard me say was “I’m a Leo, so I don’t believe in astrology.” She’s a Scorpio, and that’s her constellation, above another of my affections, the Walnut Grove tower farm in California’s …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Eye Day
2026-02-13 Cyclops time. Thirteen years ago, when I was just entering the final demographic, I had the cataract in my right eye replaced. It was a quick and easy procedure that left me with 20/10 vision when I walked out the door of the surgery center. It's s …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It
2026-02-13 Last fall, I wrote about how the fear of AI was leading us to wall off the open internet in ways that would hurt everyone. At the time, I was worried about how companies were conflating legitimate concerns about bulk AI training with basic web accessib …›
Current→ January CDP Index: High-dollar gifts, new donors fuel standout year for membership revenue
2026-02-13 As organizations look toward 2026, retaining new and higher-level donors will be key to revenue stability. The post January CDP Index: High-dollar gifts, new donors fuel standout year for membership revenue appeared first on Current. …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Judge Accuses DOJ Of Telling Court To “Pound Sand,” In Case Over Venezuelans Sent To Salvadoran Concentration Camp
2026-02-13 Judge Boasberg got his vindication in the frivolous “complaint” the DOJ filed against him, and now he’s calling out the DOJ’s bullshit in the long-running case that caused them to file the complaint against him in the first place: the JGG v. Tr …›
Current→ FCC approves reassignment of UEN-TV license within Utah university system
2026-02-13 PBS Utah plans to program the station with the 24/7 PBS Kids channel. The post FCC approves reassignment of UEN-TV license within Utah university system appeared first on Current. …›
Poynter→ Buyouts signal growing fracture inside CBS News
2026-02-13 Unrest continues at CBS News. As I linked to in the newsletter earlier this week, the New York Post’s Alexandra Steigrad reported that about a quarter of “CBS Evening News” […] The post Buyouts signal growing fracture inside CBS News appear …›
Poynter→ Is Donald Trump right that the U.S. crime rate is at its lowest in 125 years?
2026-02-13 President Donald Trump has been celebrating what he says is a major crime reduction achievement in the United States. On at least 10 occasions from Jan. 29 to Feb. 8, Trump has offered a version of this statement: “The crime […] T …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Panic! At The Discord
2026-02-13 Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Because Pricing is Getting Too Personal
2026-02-12 Surveillance pricing already has its own page in Wikipedia. It also has its own authority: Abbey Stemler, Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics and Weimer Faculty Fellow in Business Law & Ethics at Indiana University’s Kelly Sch …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Bondi Spying On Congressional Epstein Searches Should Be A Major Scandal
2026-02-12 Yesterday, Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before the House Judiciary Committee. Among the more notable exchanges was when Rep. Pramila Jayapal asked some of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims who were in the audience to stand up and indicate whether …›
Current→ Comings and goings: Public Media Infrastructure announces board, VPM hires CFO …
2026-02-12 LaFontaine Oliver will be the inaugural board chair for Public Media Infrastructure. The post Comings and goings: Public Media Infrastructure announces board, VPM hires CFO … appeared first on Current. …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Joseph Gordon-Levitt Goes To Washington DC, Gets Section 230 Completely Backwards
2026-02-12 You may have heard last week that actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt went to Washington DC and gave a short speech at an event put on by Senator Dick Durbin calling for the sunsetting of Section 230. It’s a short speech, and it gets almost everything wrong a …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Blurs Day
2026-02-12 Recommendations? My (guessing) seven-year-old LG 5K Ultrafine 27" display has become flaky. Repair estimates run into many hundreds, so I need a new monitor. Currently, I'm browsing Apple 5K Studio Displays on eBay. Saves me several hundred do …›
Poynter→ Americans say the news is essential. They just don’t enjoy it much.
2026-02-12 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. If you’re reading this newsletter, it likely means […] The post Americans say the news is essential. They just don’t enjoy i …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ The Letter of the Law, and the Law in Practice
2026-02-12 Experts discuss the risks posed to journalism as the courts test the limits of press freedom law. …›
Poynter→ Florida says bread contains weed killer. Here’s what the science says.
2026-02-12 Should Americans be worried about weed killer in their bread? Florida first lady Casey DeSantis, who helps lead the state’s version of the Make America Healthy Again movement, recently said the Healthy […] The post Florida says bread contains …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Peter Mandelson Invokes Press Harassment Protections To Dodge Questions About His Support Of Jeffrey Epstein
2026-02-11 Peter Mandelson—the former UK cabinet minister who was just sacked as Britain’s ambassador to the United States over newly revealed emails with Jeffrey Epstein—has found a novel way to avoid answering questions about why he told a convicted s …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ An 18-Million-Subscriber YouTuber Just Explained Section 230 Better Than Every Politician In Washington
2026-02-11 Over the years, we’ve written approximately one million words explaining why Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is essential to how the internet functions. We’ve corrected politicians who lie about it. We’ve debunked myths …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Watts Up
2026-02-11 Book them now Early bird tickets are on sale for the 42nd IIW, which began on a Gillmor Gang podcast the last day of 2004. In my biased but correct opinion, IIW is the most leveraged tech conference on Earth. This one will happen on April 28th to 30th, …›
RJI→ Worker-friendly newsrooms are not all the same
2026-02-11 Co-ops, staff-run nonprofits and democratic newsrooms take a mix-and-match approach to how they operate In 2021, a group of colleagues and I relaunched The Appeal as one of the nation’s first staff-run nonprofit newsrooms. In the years since, the …›
Poynter→ The Nancy Guthrie disappearance case keeps unfolding in public view
2026-02-11 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. One of the more bizarre and disturbing stories […] The post The Nancy Guthrie disappearance case keeps unfolding in public view …›
Poynter→ Q&A: A new kind of public editor is taking on the entire city of Indianapolis
2026-02-11 Tracey Compton is stepping into a first-of-its-kind job in journalism. She’s the Indianapolis Public Editor, serving the entire market in a pilot project that launches with her first column next […] The post Q&A: A new kind of public edito …›
Better News→ How the Houston Chronicle collaborated with an Instagram creator
2026-02-10 The Houston Chronicle team shares its experience of partnering with an Instagram creator, which was a project in the American Press Institute's Influencer Learning Cohort. The post How the Houston Chronicle collaborated with an Instagram creator appear …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ How To Think About AI: Is It The Tool, Or Are You?
2026-02-10 We live in a stupidly polarizing world where nuance is apparently not allowed. Everyone wants you to be for or against something—and nowhere is this more exhausting than with AI. There are those who insist that it’s all bad and there is nothing of …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Dues Day
2026-02-10 Currently I have three of them. Do you have a principle? I hadn't thought about that before reading Justin Mikolay's Inventing on Principle: A Distillation of Bret Victor's Extraordinary Talk About How To Live Your Life. And that's jus …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Hey Rep. Gonzales, Finish The Thought: What About That Five-Year-Old US Citizen?
2026-02-10 Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales from Texas went on Face the Nation on Sunday and said a lot of silly things, doing his best as a loyal Trump foot soldier to defend the indefensible, to make sense of the nonsensical, and to lie about all the rest. However …›
RJI→ Building a syllabus companion to help educators integrate podcasts into their classrooms
2026-02-10 A conversation with Jenna Spinelle and Brandon Stover The Democracy Group is a podcast network of 18 shows that focus on democracy and civil engagement. Jenna Spinelle, host and producer of the Democracy Works podcast and communications lead for Pe …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ NBC Hid The Boos For JD Vance. Where’s Trump’s ‘Unfair Editing’ Lawsuit?
2026-02-09 If you watched NBC’s prime time broadcast of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, you saw Vice President JD Vance in the stands at San Siro Stadium in Milan with his wife, Usha. The commentary team said “JD Vance” and moved …›
RJI→ Launching today: How to commission an effective local news ecosystem assessment
2026-02-09 Contact: Damon Kiesow, 573-882-5831, kiesowd@missouri.edu The Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) and the Local News Impact Consortium (LNIC) have launched Commissioning a Local News Ecosystem Assessment: An Operational Toolkit, a resource to strea …›
Current→ Comings and goings: RMPM hires chief experience officer, longtime Kansas Public Radio PD to retire …
2026-02-09 Amber Payne, a former editorial leader at BET.com, Teen Vogue and NBCBLK, will join Rocky Mountain Public Media in Denver. The post Comings and goings: RMPM hires chief experience officer, longtime Kansas Public Radio PD to retire … appeared first on …›
RJI→ Evaluating research about drugs and addiction: The danger of a single study
2026-02-09 Asking key questions when evaluating studies can help improve the quality of reporting about research A few years ago, I started noticing a statement that was frequently used to describe one of the benefits of syringe service programs (SSPs): that …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Weekstart
2026-02-09 Or both Monday and Tuesday? If Saturday and Sunday are the weekend, why not call Monday the Weekstart? Smart? Or just good at whatever this is? An AI counterargument to the mirror thesis. And not just because my name gets dropped in it This Ezra Klein …›