Category Archives: News-tech

Doc Searls Weblog→ Our Chive

2025-12-22 And exactly which one were you looking for? Anna's Blog says Anna's Archive has backed up Spotify's entire music library: "This release includes the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks and 186 m …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Holiday Findings

2025-12-21 Literally Rocks in Canada that are older than dirt. About half the cover price The Intention Economy is now just $13 on Amazon in hardcover. I can't think of a better metaphor Christmas is foreplay. See if you can ace this A list of sixteen contr …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Satur Daze

2025-12-20 Feel and Look First, Ethan Mollick's latest on AI is thoughtful and informative. It also introduced me to Nano Banana Pro, Google's Gemini-based image creator/editor. This comes at a time when I have sworn off using AI-generated art, because al …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Time to Why

2025-12-19 What he says Jamie Burke: Why the Intention Economy might finally be near. He predicts what I predicted, with a DLT (distributed ledger technology) spin. Note that photo credit for the original portrait used in the piece should go to Peter Adams and …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Department of Collections

2025-12-18 What would Adam Smith think? Cory Doctorow's latest describes how financialization has put the real economy inside a casino. Guilty as charged Jimmy Wales' latest fundraising email is addressed to "Wikipedia’s rarest supporters." I …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Shitting Us Not

2025-12-17 When you crap in Los Angeles, it goes to the ocean through what you see above: the Hyperion sewage processing plant on the south side of LAX. Now imagine this plant as the heart of a fecosystem that takes an ocean of personal data gathered by surveil …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Taking it Slower

2025-12-17 To the best editor I've ever had Paolo once told me that cats came to Earth to enslave the standing monkeys. While funny and in some ways true, cats can be more than that. They can be as loyal as dogs (and both species far more loyal than grown hum …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Funnies

2025-12-12 The Onion's Best Anti-Spam Legislation Opposed By Powerful Penis-Enlargement Lobby Report: 90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles Facebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network ONN Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Re Collections

2025-12-11 Angels of Cities On the ground now (context) in Los Angeles (actually San Marino, but all this sprawl is Los Angeles), reminded afresh that I love this place. I just took a walk in 57° weather. It's clear, the sun is up, and the expected high is …›

NYT Open - Medium→ Accessibility: Requirements, Not Features

2025-04-25 Shipping fast often means shrinking scope — but accessibility deserves permanence, not compromise. At The New York Times, product managers embedded it into how our teams think, build, and deliver using the power of the three P’s: People, Proces …›

INN Labs→ Do’s and Don’ts of WordPress Security

2019-10-04 With a great WordPress site comes great responsibility. WordPress offers journalists a distinguished platform to publish and distribute their content, but keeping your site safe and secure can seem like an overwhelming and daunting task. Luckily, …›

INN Labs→ NewsMatch Pop Up Best Practices

2019-08-30 There have been some changes since our last blog post around Pop Up best practices for NewsMatch and other special campaigns, so we're releasing an updated guide. Here are some general recommendations and best practices for using popups as part of …›

INN Labs→ Announcing Largo 0.6.4

2019-07-19 This week's release of updates to the Largo WordPress theme is all about improvements for images, pull quotes, and media. It also brings improved compatibility and editorial functions for the WordPress Block Editor. This release includes: An exa …›

INN Labs→ SRCCON 2019 – A first-timer’s recap

2019-07-15 Miranda with Jonathan Kealing (INN’s Chief Network Officer) and INN Members Candice Forman from Outlier Media and Asraa Mustufa from Chicago Reporter. We had a blast meeting and chatting in person! I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect going in …›