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Beyond the Web

Watch this (it’s only 30 seconds) and then answer these questions:

7 min readMar 6, 2022

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We need a Theia

Some prophecies come true.

6 min readNov 24, 2021

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Making useful photographs

What does it mean when hundreds of thousands of one’s photos appear in articles, essays and posts all over the Web—and one hasn’t been paid…

4 min readMay 19, 2021

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Making useful photographs

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The New Character of Positioning: Where You Come From Matters More than Where You’re Going

By Doc Searls October 10, 1997

25 min readJul 28, 2020

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The Universe is a startup

Earth is 4.54 billion years old. It was born 9.247 years after the Big Bang, which happened 13.787 billion years ago. Meaning that our…

2 min readDec 4, 2019

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What does the Internet make of us?

“We shape our tools and then our tools shape us,” wrote Father John Culkin, SJ, a Professor of Communication at Fordham and a colleague of…

13 min readSep 13, 2019

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If Your Privacy Is in the Hands of Others Alone, You Don’t Have Any

Privacy regulations are good, but without a clear understanding of them, or enforcement, they can actually make things worse—especially if…

7 min readSep 3, 2019

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If Your Privacy Is in the Hands of Others Alone, You Don’t Have Any

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This thing is bigger than journalism

We who care about journalism are asked to join the Save Journalism Project, and its fight against Big Tech. Their pitch begins,

3 min readJul 17, 2019

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A Privacy Manifesto

The following lives in continuous draft form at the ProjectVRM wiki. Improvements are welcome. (Details in the Call to Action at the…

9 min readJul 6, 2019

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The Wurst of the Web

Don’t think about what’s wrong on the Web. Think about what pays for it. Better yet, look at it.

5 min readMar 23, 2019

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The Wurst of the Web

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Doc Searls

Author of The Intention Economy, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, Fellow of CITS at UCSB, alumnus Fellow of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard.

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