Category Archives: News-tech

Doc Searls Weblog→ Turtles all the way up

2026-03-18 Not an ideal pet. I’m fascinated by Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas), which bask on the sands of Poʻipū Beach, here on the south shore of Kauaʻi. Known locally as honu, they typically range from 200 to 400 pounds, but some ha …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ St. Patrick’s Spleen

2026-03-17 So here's one Iain Henderson: If I Had a Place to Stand and a Lever I Could Fix The Internet … Excerpt: "Endless positive possibilities become possible when we move beyond the weaknesses in the current architecture, and build genuine d …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ HI Day

2026-03-16 Your next Aurora From Spaceweather.com (slightly edited to explain stuff): A NASA model predicts a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun) will arrive on March 19th, mere hours before the northern vernal equinox (~10  AM EDST) This is perfect timi …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Midweekend

2026-03-15 How to enjoy bad but not worse weather Dig the webcam at Poipu beach, on the south side of Kauai, near where I'll be for a week, starting tomorrow. Also, the turtles, in calmer weather. I love me a water matrix printer This fountain in Moravian S …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Santa Barbarian Again

2026-03-13 No complaints. Back at the ranch for the next two days in California's most beautiful town. Man, I do love it here. Alas, I mostly live elsewhere, and I love those places too. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Heading Out Day

2026-03-11 Why keep beauty when ugly will do? The iconic Hughes Memorial Tower in Washington DC will be demolished. Life in the vast lane The thunderstorms have passed by, and we're finishing packing for Santa Barbara and Hawaii. In a related matter, people o …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ This Tuesday

2026-03-10 Verily What's happening today is today. All day. Also, it's absurd that Indiana is mostly in the Eastern time zone. This time of year, the sun rises at four hours before noon and sets eight hours after noon.  Apparently, yes Ted Gioia: Is Spo …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Behind the Eye Ball

2026-03-09 Here's not looking at you, kid Three and a half weeks after cataract surgery on my left eye, vision improvement seems to have plateaued. I'd say it's 20/80. The new lens is fine, but the corneal edema persists, so it feels like it's sme …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Stun Day

2026-03-09 I don’t know either. I have almost 100,000 better photos on Flickr. But their work has not My photos on Flickr (here and here) have had more than 20 million views. The photo with the most views is this one (above) with 83,000+ so far. It was shot …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Sat Enough Day

2026-03-07 Questions Is Conditional Consent compatible with MyTerms? This—_Instead of "accept all" or "reject all" per site, users define rules across three dimensions: cookie purpose, website category, and third-party processor. Allow analy …›

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 …›