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Doc Searls
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Doc Searls's personal blog at doc.searls.com covers culture and politics. Since 2023, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Doc Searls' blog for commentary on media and the web: archives of closed newspapers, the Cluetrain Manifesto and DevRel, and an editor's view of AI text watermarking.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Just trying to make stuff happen
What Hacker News says?
Gawker and numerous shuttered local newspapers (the former Santa Barbara News Press comes to mind: < https://doc.searls.com/2024/04/21/archives-as-commons/ >) have also seen this occur. The challenge for former reporters and staffers who lose any ready access to their portfolio is profound.
Comment linking /2024/04/21/archives-as-commons/
on “MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline”Submitted Online sports betting: As you do well, they cut you off as a story · 148 points
HN discussionDevRel feels so in the spirit of Cluetrain Manifesto. Which should make it such a fulcrum for company success, for showing the versatility & flexibility of your offerings & helping forging bridges. Alas, in these days we & our companies are having more of a burnt out Gluetrain Manifesto moment/age (through probably only a little bit of fault of DevRels). https://doc.searls.com/2008/08/10/remembering-gluetrain/
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on “DevRel's Death as Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon”Submitted I Am Here Instead of Substack as a story · 7 points
HN discussionDoc Searls, the long time Editor-in-Chief of the Linux Journal, brings an editors viewpoint to this, and mixes in a number of other voices.[1] Many writers use AI to edit their own words, and this watermarking poisons the well for that use. I think the backlash from this could be the seed that undoes their attempted 2 Trillion IPO this fall. [1] https://doc.searls.com/2026/08/17/you-can-hear-the-squeak-of...
Comment linking /2026/08/17/you-can-hear-the-squeak-of-sphincters-closing/
on “Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing”Submitted Doc Searls: 'How DuckDuckGo Can Be a Hero' as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Privacy Is a Contract as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intelligence as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Education 3.0 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted If Your Privacy Is in the Hands of Others Alone, You Don't Have Any as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Losing the Web to Saving Us All as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Em Dashes and Elipses as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leavings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Continuing End of OTA TV as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remembering R.C. Ward as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Real with AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Real Agency as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The car must not become an octopus? The Kraken won as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remembering Dewayne Hendricks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Radio Delivers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Archives as Commons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Internet of Stuff as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better News as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MyTerms a New Era Begins as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who's Your Agent? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Communities without one can build a local library as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Death Is a Feature as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted DataPress – A bigger idea for community calendars as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Whither Medium? as a story · 1 points
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