dsearls

dsearls

@dsearls.bsky.social

Journalist, author, blogger, podcaster, photographer, farting-arounder

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Yo @wordpress.org @duckduckgo.com @mozilla.org @drupalassociation.bsky.social @archive.org You might want to read this: doc.searls.com/2026/05/26/f... Same goes for everyone who cares about the Web enough to save it, and about business enough to make it work better for everyone.

doc.searls.comFrom Losing the Web to Saving Us AllAs Q&A with AI chatbots replaces search, the Web is starting to look run-down, and in some ways is being abandoned. If that continues, what happens to the Web’s architects, authors, and i…
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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.

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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.

doc.searls.comQuestions of Law, not Just PoliticsGo to HUD.gov,  and you’ll get this: Go to USDA.gov, and you’ll get this: Seems to me these violate the Hatch Act, aka “An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities.” I…
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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/

doc.searls.comPersonal AIHaving personal AI is like having a personal computer. It’s yours. It’s not AIaaS (AI as a Service), which is what we get from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Perplexity, Meta, an…
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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...

projectvrm.orgThe Cluetrain Will Run from Customers to Companies – ProjectVRMFor the good of both. Customers need privacy, respect, and the ability to provide good and helpful information to the companies they deal with. The good clues customers bring can include far more than...