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Doc Searls Weblog - Oct 10, 2008
From the air there’s a strange kind of vast sameness to the Grand Canyon. It’s a carved up layercake of variously colored rock that’s less dramatic viewed from above than from its edges or its insides. There’s one …
Also tagged: photography, places, travel, science, geology
Doc Searls Weblog - Oct 6, 2008
It’s hard to feel shitty when the Steve Miller Band is playing Jet Airliner in the middle of your head. Or smart, either — at least in my case. Jeebus, all these decades I’ve been thinking the chorus was Big old jet …
Also tagged: health, art, blogging, places, the doors, greensboro, steve miller, jan speas, jan cox speas, jet airliner, ed cone
Doc Searls Weblog - Sep 28, 2008
Great remembrance of Paul Newman by Manohla Dargis in the NY Times. (I’d like to beg forgiveness for the annoying login required by the Times, but I won’t. It’s just plain wrong for the Times to retain that friction …
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, business, news, blogging, infrastructure, life, problems, travel, ideas, future, vrm
Doc Searls Weblog - Sep 28, 2008
Stephen Lewis latest, New York Women: Self-Vetting, My Aunt Estelle, and Haikus for Sale, visits the locus and origins of his firmly grounded sensibilities — for example, our distinctly New York senses of humor and our …
Doc Searls Weblog - Sep 27, 2008
Stephen Lewis latest, New York Women: Self-Vetting, My Aunt Estelle, and Haikus for Sale, visits the locus and origins of his firmly grounded sensibilities — for example, our distinctly New York senses of humor and our …
Doc Searls Weblog - Sep 26, 2008
The other day I was sitting in the company of leaders in one industrial category. (I won’t say which because it’s beside the point I want to make.) A question arose: Why are there so few visitors to our websites? …
Also tagged: blogging, infrastructure, life, ideas, 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, business, life, science, ideas, uncategorized
Doc Searls Weblog - Sep 20, 2008
Sarah Palin said yes, thanks, to a road to nowhere in Alaska, a story in Thursday’s LATimes, is one among countless gotcha!s which in sum comprise a sea of bad news across which Alaska’s governor is obliged to walk …
Also tagged: politics, places, journalism
Doc Searls Weblog - Sep 19, 2008
Sitting in a bar raised above the gambling floor at the MGM Grand, killing some fizzy water on ice while clearing time for my room to be cleaned. The bar is comfortable, with thick carpeting and heavy drapes pulled …