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6 min read 2022-01-01 02:08:46

Predictions 2022 – Crypto, Climate, Big Tech, Streaming, Offices, Tik Tok…and (ugh) Trump

Welcome to year nineteen of these annual predictions, which means….holy cow, twenty years of writing at this site. Searchblog has been neglected

1 min read 2021-01-18 05:31:55

No. No. No. For the past several years, I’ve led a graduate-level class studying the early history of Internet policy in the United States. It runs

6 min read 2021-01-18 05:31:55

No. No. No. For the past several years, I’ve led a graduate-level class studying the early history of Internet policy in the United States. It runs

7 min read 2021-01-02 01:28:47

Never in my five-plus decades has a year been so eagerly anticipated, which makes this business of prediction particularly daunting. I’m

1 min read 2021-01-02 01:28:47

Never in my five-plus decades has a year been so eagerly anticipated, which makes this business of prediction particularly daunting. I’m

1 min read 2020-12-01 01:53:51

Why “information equity” matters. An idea has been tugging at me for months now, one I’ve spent countless hours discussing and debating

7 min read 2020-12-01 01:53:51

Why “information equity” matters. An idea has been tugging at me for months now, one I’ve spent countless hours discussing and debating

8 min read 2020-04-20 05:01:00

Zoom’s stock: Up and down and up and down and up and to the right. As the coronavirus crisis built to pandemic levels in early March, a relatively

1 min read 2019-12-20 21:00:40

Looking for a new book craft? Have your teens memorialize their favorite books on letters! All you need are print-outs on regular paper of the book

4 min read 2019-11-22 21:00:38

For a big chunk of this year, my library was closed while we awaited a new building. We began doing pop-up libraries & programs at places in our

4 min read 2019-03-15 20:49:04

So when the Black Mirror episode Bandersnatch was released there was a lot of buzz around this idea of the interactive television show with multiple

1 min read 2018-12-27 02:23:50

Those of us fortunate enough to have lived through the birth of the web have a habit of stewing in our own nostalgia. We’ll recall some cool site

1 min read 2018-11-13 06:02:06

Detail from the cover of Harari’s lastest work, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. A year and a half ago I reviewed Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus,

1 min read 2018-11-01 03:07:01

Gramercy Tavern in New York City If Walmart can leverage data tokens to lure Amazon’s best customers away, what else is possible in a world of

1 min read 2018-10-01 22:22:07

Let’s be honest with ourselves, shall we? We’re in the midst of the most significant shift in our society since at least the Gilded Age – a