Category Archives: News-tech

Doc Searls Weblog→ Shutter Day

2026-01-31 Without losing its charm I am in Harbour Island, where all the old houses have shutters. The house where we're staying is a small cottage built in 1832. It has survived countless hurricanes. Remember Her? Moltbook is a Reddit for AI chatbots. NBC:Â …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Now We Begin

2026-01-29 Yesterday, Customer Commons and MyData Global launched MyTerms at a London event correctly titled The Only Way to Get Real Privacy Online. (I explain only and real at that link.) MyTerms is the nickname for 7012-2025 – IEEE Standard for M …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Watts Up

2026-01-29 You're welcome NASA: Asteroid 2024 YR4 will certainly miss Earth and has a 96.2% chance of missing the Moon. I share this in faint hope that when one sees BS on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or social media wherever saying the asteroid is going to …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Warm Takes

2026-01-28 Just what you didn't ask for Show of hands: Does anyone here want ads on ChatGPT? (Don't raise them if you work in the ad biz.)  Did you want them in Amazon searches? How about Google's before that? Expect ChatGPT to become just as enshitt …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Whatknot

2026-01-27 What is the opposite of criticism? On a lead from a friend, I followed a thread from this patent to its author, Brian Dear (another friend), then to his about page, his old blog, his BlueSky tweetings, his bandcamp page, his lettrboxd page, then to …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Numb Day

2026-01-26 That is smart Why Intelligence Is a Terrible Proxy for Wisdom, by Joan Westerberg, says "Wisdom is knowing what you don't know." Because we need to save the Web from AI overviews I've read The Domain Name’s New Role in the AI Web, …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Flying Fckery

2026-01-26 Go now to FlightAware’s MiseryMap. Cick on the blue Play button and watch The Great Storm of January 25-26 move across the land and cause massive delays at airports in its path. I have a 1.59 GB movie (.mov) of what you just saw. What sh …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Daze Off

2026-01-24 What emerges? You know how Google's original  (and continuing) mission was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"? It didn't happen with Google. Gemini gets closer. So I'm thinking …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ The Room Where It Will Happen

2026-01-24 MyTerms is done and ready to begin. The launch is next Wednesday, in the room above at Imperial College London. Back in ’22, I called MyTerms (IEEE 7012) The Most Important Standard in Development Today. Now it’s finished and mor …›

NYT Open - Medium→ Using Provocations to Shake the Status Quo

2025-07-22 The bold approach NYT Cooking used to define a strategy for recipe cards.Illustration by Ben DenzerBy Jayne LeeIn The New York Times Cooking, “cards,” or the containers that represent our content, are the first impression of our brand. They’re …›

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→ WordPress vs. Drupal: Which CMS is Best for You?

2019-12-03 WordPress and Drupal are both powerful Content Management Systems (CMS’s) and two of the most popular ones in use today. There are several key differences between the two, and selecting the best fit has more to do with the specific goals an …›

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 …›