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WGBH/WCRB go the way of WNYC/WQXR

Now here in Boston a similar move is underway. WGBH, “Boston’s NPR arts and culture station” will go the way of WNYC-FM, which phased out classical music starting in 2002, eventually shunting it to HD side-channels and Internet streams while populating ...

From DOC SEARLS, Doc Searls Weblog,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: WNYC,  WQXR,  NPR,  Wikipedia,  Costco

Catching up

I’m back in Boston after a great few days in Utah at the Kynetx Impact conference, where VRM and related stuff was brought up and discussed at length. It was an inaugural effort by Kynetx, which has what I think is a novel and profound take on the ...

From DOC SEARLS, Doc Searls Weblog,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Neil Young

Swelling ground

Two posts worth noting over at the ProjectVRM blog. The first is Intention Economy Traction, which riffs off David Gillespie’s illustrative and wise 263-slide narrative Digital Strangelove (or How I Learned To … So I called SuperShuttle to book a ride ...

From DOC SEARLS, Doc Searls Weblog,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Neil Young

Let me re-repeat

So I called SuperShuttle to book a ride to the airport in Denver. The first thing the robot voice said was that I could also book this on the Web. So I thought, cool, I’ll do that. It’ll probably go faster, and I can copy the confirmation information ...

From DOC SEARLS, Doc Searls Weblog,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Neil Young,  Comcast

Happy Birthdays

– to Colette Searls, JP Rangaswami, Chris Locke, Neil Young. Two of whom will join me on stage at Defrag shortly. Before the salt in evaporating sea water turns white, it goes through stages of color that range from jade green to brick red, with ...

From DOC SEARLS, Doc Searls Weblog,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Neil Young,  Comcast

Colors of salt

Before the salt in evaporating sea water turns white, it goes through stages of color that range from jade green to brick red, with variations of orange, yellow and other colors. From above the salt ponds around San Francisco Bay look like giant panes ...

From DOC SEARLS, Doc Searls Weblog,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Comcast

Beyond Social Media

Consider the possibility that “social media” is a crock. Or at least bear with that thought through Defrag, which takes place in Denver over today and Thursday, and for which the word “social” appears seventeen times in the agenda. (Perspective: “cloud” ...

From DOC SEARLS, Doc Searls Weblog,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Google Inc.,  Dave Winer,  Facebook Inc.,  America Online

A note to Comcast from a tiny minority

Not long after I overheard a Comcast ad on a college football broadcast, the doorbell rang. It was a guy wearing a Comcast shirt and carrying a clipboard-type contraption with some kind of a phone-like keyboard at one end. Under the clip was a list of ...

From DOC SEARLS, Doc Searls Weblog,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Comcast

What’s wrong with this assumption?

So I just went to look up Debora Spar’s Ruling the Waves, on Amazon, and was greeted by the above. Never mind that I wasn’t looking for what they said I just looked at. Consider instead the strangeness of having something with my name on it, as an ...

From DOC SEARLS, Doc Searls Weblog,  5 Nov 2009

Come on by

For my readers in Santa Barbara, I highly invite you to come over to the open house, Noon-2pm today at CITS — the Center for Information Technology and Society at UCSB. This is a great bunch of people, doing great work, in a nice new space that I wish ...

From DOC SEARLS, Doc Searls Weblog,  5 Nov 2009

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