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Doc Searls Weblog - Oct 8, 2008
I don’t know enough about prediction markets, but here’s what one of them says about the likely outcome of the election: The tide is running. It’s Obama’s to lose at this point, and he’s too smart and well organized …
Also tagged: politics, events, obama predictionmarkets betfair
Doc Searls Weblog - Oct 6, 2008
Guest-hosting Saturday Night Live. Might make up for her running mate’s chickening out on David Letterman.
Doc Searls Weblog - Oct 3, 2008
So we just passed a bail-out package that’s marginally better than the one voted down on Monday. But it’s still a bail-out package. When McCain “suspended” his campaign last week and said he was “going back to …
Doc Searls Weblog - Sep 28, 2008
In his comment here, Mike Warot encourages me — and the rest of us — to watch this video by Karl Denninger, whose blog is here. I did. It’s good. But I’m not sure Denninger is right. Or all-right, let’s say. Here’s …
Also tagged: politics, news, blogging, infrastructure, life, problems, travel, ideas, future, past, vrm
Doc Searls Weblog - Sep 26, 2008
Dave supports the bail-out, which many are calling the Splurge. At this point, so do I. That puts me in the company of Warren Buffett on the outs with Kevin Phillips, who says (below) that it won’t work. Elsewhere …
Also tagged: politics, events, infrastructure, problems, future
Doc Searls Weblog - Sep 23, 2008
I’ve been obsessing about infrastructure lately, with help from Stephen Lewis, whose experience and scholarship on the matter exceeds mine. The Etymology of Infrastructure and the Infrastructure of the Internet is his …
Also tagged: politics, life, science, ideas, uncategorized, past
Doc Searls Weblog - Sep 6, 2008
In response to my last political post, the subject of High Road vs. Low Road was brought up. One comment suggested that I thought Obama’s was the former while McCain’s was the latter. In fact I was suggesting that both …
Also tagged: politics, news, future, election, politicians, mccain, obama, biden, bums, palin
Doc Searls Weblog - Sep 1, 2008
(Note: this post was made mistakenly as a page, and didn’t go up at first. Now it’s here. Thanks to commenters for the help.) I’ve flown over these coal mines in New Mexico and Arizona many times, but never checked to …
Also tagged: politics, news, photography, places, life, travel, past, geology
Doc Searls Weblog - Sep 1, 2008
Comcast, which has amazingly bad PR chops, has done it again. Comcast to Place a Cap on Internet Downloads, headlines the NYTimes story. An excerpt: Until now, Comcast had not defined excessive use, but it had …
Doc Searls Weblog - Jul 23, 2008
I shot some Puffins the other day, from an old lobster boat piloted by my cousin George, who is a local on Maine’s Muscongus Bay. We skirted just past the surf surrounding Eastern Egg Rock, from which puffins …
Also tagged: art, photography, fun, travel