dsearls
Journalist, author, blogger, podcaster, photographer, farting-arounder
- Big thing going down in London on the 28th. See you there or in a Zoom square: doc.searls.com/2026/01/20/n...
- A blog post: doc.searls.com/2026/01/16/h...
- Here is a short video that condenses my hour-long talk on MyTerms at Indiana University: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2B7... Does a pretty good job.
- Had fun writing this one: doc.searls.com/2025/12/30/o...
- I am live on WFHB right now: wfhb.org
- We are an hour and a third from a great talk Elettra Bietti will give here at Indiana University and live on Zoom. It'll be great. Please come. More here (with the Zoom link): doc.searls.com/2025/12/05/o...
- I'm giving a talk on Tuesday about a new standard that flips the script on cookie notices, surveillance, and the adtech fecosystem. Its IEEE P7012, better known as #MyTerms. It'll be on Zoom. More at doc.searls.com/2025/11/14/m...
- Why I'd rather book the Death Star than use Tripadvisor for anything again: doc.searls.com/2025/11/14/l...
- Big aurora going on: doc.searls.com/2025/11/11/l...
- A question, plus another at the end: doc.searls.com/2025/11/06/w...
- My latest: doc.searls.com/2025/10/20/t...
- I've disliked the Dodgers since they divorced New York and married Los Angeles (which I do love, but not for its baseball). But Shohei Ohtani is possibly the greatest baseball player of all time, and he is playing in ours, now. Alas, for the Dodgers.
- Is Facebook down? Every other site/service seems to be working, but Facebook is a spinning wheel right now.
- Amazon's music on hold is the same as Rackspace's was before it failed in an attack and cost me years of email. Hope that's not a bad sign.
- Do partisan statements atop US .gov websites violate the Hatch Act? See doc.searls.com/2025/10/03/q... My idea here is mainly to help reporters follow what's going on by visiting links to every federal branch and agency I could find. See what they're saying during the shutdown.
- Laws won't get us privacy online. Contract will. I explain why: doc.searls.com/2025/09/11/p...
- A long-belated obituary of sorts, with a bunch of bonus facts: doc.searls.com/2025/09/09/r...
- One irony is that I'm pointing to this on a social medium and not putting it on my own Lovable Expert page: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
- Want to blow up cookie notices, and overturn the whole surveillance fecosystem? MyTerms is the way. I make the case here: doc.searls.com/2025/08/14/t...
- Try seeing "mainframe" every time you see "AI." Because giant mainframes are what we're getting AI from, so far. "Personalized" is nice, but you don't drive. You're a passenger in a Waymo. We need truly personal AI. I've been writing about that here: doc.searls.com/personal-ai/
- Just posted this: doc.searls.com/2025/08/02/g...
- This post is about how both The Cluetrain Manifesto and The Intention Economy will finally come true. It's what many of us have been working toward since the last millennium: projectvrm.org/2025/07/15/t...
- This is among the saddest things I've ever read: www.facebook.com/hammaduh/pos...
- I make a bet (more like a wish) at the end of doc.searls.com/2025/05/21/online-sports-betting-is-for-losers/
- Motherings: doc.searls.com/2025/05/11/t...
- How "What's on?" is now mostly off. doc.searls.com/2025/05/05/t... HTs to @jeffjarvis.bsky.social and Clay Shirky.
- Want privacy on your terms online? Come help us make that happen: projectvrm.org/2025/04/06/m...
- Cory Doctorow, of @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy and much else, will be speaking at noon (Eastern) tomorrow here at Indiana University and on zoom. Cory is always brilliant, and I can guarantee an hour well spent. See you there. events.iu.edu/ostromworksh...
- The word "agency" is hot now, but it wasn't when I wrote a chapter about it 13 years ago. In the meantime, some of us (#projectvrm, #CustomerCommons, #IEEE P7012) have been working on a standard that can give our agency a giant lever in the digital world: doc.searls.com/2025/03/23/real-agency/
- After reading www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n... I am wondering if the VOA is still on the air. Anyone know?
- Some guidance on tonight's full #LunarEclipse: doc.searls.com/2025/03/13/t...
- If you care about reporting on government meetings, this will be a highly leveraged talk: doc.searls.com/2025/02/23/l... I'll host it, this Wednesday at Noon Eastern time. Free on Zoom. Register at the link in the post.
- Zoom, in case you're here (and not just on Xitter and Threads), need help with this:
- Zoe. Good dog.
- It may not seem this way, but I've written a tough-love letter to @cvspharmacy (which seems not to have an account here yet) projectvrm.org/2025/02/12/a...
- GRAND THEFT AUTOCRACY. Just a headline somebody might want to use.
- Reposted by dsearlsLast year we started a project to download and preserve public data. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Since saving public data is in the news today — but is always needed — let’s talk about what you can do to help.
- If you want regeneration after a disaster, and not just recovery, invest an hour at noon on Wednesday to zoom into this, which we're hosting live online from Indiana U: events.iu.edu/ostromworksh...
- Jan Searls and I are trying to save our alma mater, Guilford College. The idea I posted here four years ago is still right on. Great to have my sis weigh in on it too: doc.searls.com/2020/12/23/g...
