Category Archives: Journalism

RJI→ Building community engagement through commenting spaces

2026-11-04 A conversation with Broadband Breakfast’s Drew Clark Comment spaces can help newsrooms interact directly with their audiences and create opportunities for meaningful public discourse. But fostering productive discussions takes time, thoughtful modera …›

RJI→ How to measure whether your journalism is useful

2026-11-03 A five-step guide to outcome metrics that matter show what your journalism actually does for readers We approach newsroom strategy through three lenses that work together: a content strategy, a product strategy, and a service strategy. Service design i …›

BuzzMachine→ A day in the life of the #BrokenTimes

2026-10-30 Practically every day on the socials, under the hashtag #BrokenTimes, I bring receipts to my claim that The New York Times is failing us and democracy. I do not wish to join in the cacophony from the Trumpists about “fake news.â€� To th …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ The California AI Rush

2026-10-29 Ships abandoned at San Francisco during the 1949 California Gold Rush. There have been five tech booms since Gordon Moore coined his eponymous Law in 1965: Mainframes (IBM, the BUNCH and minicomputers (1965-1982) PCs (1978-1985) Internet …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ The Fossil Present

2026-10-24 ChatGPT’s response to “I need an image of the World Wide Web as a fossil, to use under the headline ‘The Fossil Present.'” The Web isn’t dying, but it is being removed from our experience. As a place to seek knowledge …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Friday Tab Clearance Sale

2026-10-23 Stormy Whether GDPR services is a market we shouldn't need at all, but it's growing like a thundercloud. (Source: Mordor Intelligence) Toward Agentic VRM vCon is "A new IETF open standard defining how conversation data — audio, video, t …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Fuseday

2026-10-20 First, and most importantly, don't miss Peter Kaminsky's talk today at 4 PM Eastern. Required Viewing I EXPOSED what big tech knows about you by becoming… a data broker, by Chris the Producer, on YouTube. It's brilliant. More about him he …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Cluesdays

2026-10-19 Soon as we skirted that ridge, the skies opened. Then it got colder. A lot colder. Riding wide On the road for a while. Above is a storm coming over Elk Country in north-central Pennsylvania. After that, Elk Country, Ohio, and back to Indiana, b …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ The Mentat’s Method of AI

2026-10-16 This is the flyer for the next talk in our speaker series at IU. It’s on Tuesday, and a can’t-miss event. I explain more below. I know a lot of people who know a lot about AI. Or seem to. Or say they do. But Pete Kaminski is the rea …›

RJI→ How creativity unlocks connection

2026-10-14 Dancing, poetry and play build trust that surveys and focus groups can’t A former courthouse. A slate-mining town in the mountains of North Wales. It’s 10 o’clock on a Saturday morning in the middle of winter, and a room full of people are dancin …›

BuzzMachine→ They’re covering the wrong AI story

2026-09-13 At least one New York Times journalist — columnist Michelle Goldberg — has at last begun covering the real AI story: not the technology but the technologists and their cult of faux philosophies that lead them …›

BuzzMachine→ 25 Years

2026-09-11 What I carried that day I have written much about my memories of 9/11: My story of surviving the day; recording what I witnessed; a meditation on the Yahrzeit; then five years on; ten; and twenty years and what I recalled still. Now twenty-five …›

BuzzMachine→ Labor and the Linotype

2026-09-07 The story of labor and the Linotype is unexpected in many aspects. For this Labor Day, I’ll share a bit on the subject from my book Hot Type. (Links to buy the hardback and audiobook versions and signed copies are here). Printers wa …›

BuzzMachine→ Sam Clemens, compositor

2026-08-21 With the publication of my new book, Hot Type, I’m sharing brief excerpts to give you a sense of the stories in it. Mark Twain is the Zelig of the tale, reentering often, as if a tour guide. Here, he comes on stage as Samuel Clemens …›

BuzzMachine→ Introducing my book ‘Hot Type’

2026-08-19 With the release my new book, Hot Type, this week, I will post some good bits in hopes of enticing you into reading it. Here, from the introduction, is a preview of the many delightful rabbit holes I explored building the story of the invention o …›

BuzzMachine→ Words matter. Damnit.

2026-08-15 On this week’s Intelligent Machines, we cohosts had a spirited disagreement about Anthropic’s watermarking of text, as required by EU regulation. The company just released more detail about how it will work, and now I’m upset for a diff …›