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9 links, first saved August 26, 2017, latest February 9, 2023.
- Is Mastodon a commons? · Doc Searls Weblog
Doc Searls is deeply thoughtful on many Internet "systems" and when I saw him invoking the commons it made me want to read on. I particularly like that he pulled in Elinor Ostrom…
- Doc Searls Weblog · Attention is not a commodity
Doc Searls agreeing, and decomposing, some concepts in Scott Galloway's most recent posts . Searls takes objection with the metaphor of attention as a commodity. He suggests it is…
- Three thoughts about NFTs
Doc Searls has been around tech for a long time, and this is a balanced view.
- How the cookie poisoned the Web - Doc Searls Weblog
Doc Searls lays a lot of problems on the cookie. This, however, was not the original idea, which Lou Montulli came up with in 1994. Lou’s idea was just for a server to remember…
- Doc Searls Weblog · Time for advertising to call off the dogs
- Doc Searls Weblog · Will our digital lives leave a fossil record?
I've thought about this topic a decent amount, and I think there are some good strategies to make sure that our digital memories are preserved. When I think about this I’m…
- Doc Searls Weblog · Going #Faceless
With all the news of Clearview AI out there, and what tech companies are doing with Facial Recognition, I’m growing more concerned about images that are out there. I don't know…
- Doc Searls Weblog · What’s wrong with bots is they’re not ours
Totally agree with Doc Searls on this. I have some "bots" that work for me, and they are ridiculously helpful. They don't sell it this way, but Sanebox is a lot like a bot for my…
- How the personal data extraction industry ends —Doc Searls Weblog
Doc Searls thinking about the long term aspects of all the personal data collection on the web. I wish that I was as confident as he that even the biggest players on the web will…