Re-reading Material

On our new digital age:
Some New Ways to Look at Infrastructure was the first draft of
What does the Internet make of us?, but is worth reading because the stuff about infrastructure mattered and was dropped in the second piece. (2017)
Will Our Digital Lives Leave a Fossil Record? (2020)
How early is Digital Life? (2020)

On the decline of over-the-air broadcasting:
The new business of free radio (2008, with additional remarks by Jonathan Marks)
What happens after TV's mainframe era ends next February? (2008)
What happens after TV's mainframe era ends next February? (2008)
Doc Searls on VRM and the future of radio (2009)
The past and future of radio (2010)
March Madness and radio's future (2010)
Why music radio is dying (2011)
How to rescue radio (2013)
The holy grail of radio (2013)
AM radio declared dead by BMW and Disney (2014)
A conversation with Doc Searls on the future of radio (2014)
How will WMAL survive losing its transmitter? (2015)
DIY radio with podcasting (2016)
The slow sidelining of over-the-air radio (2016)
FCC is just making a bad thing worse (2016)
Where Public Radio Still Rocks (2019)
How long will radio last (2020)
How the once mighty fall (about WMAL, above, in 2020)
A look at broadcast history happening (2023)
The Tall Tower Market Collapses (2024)
Radio's Death Knells (2025)
When TV Went Digital (2025)—a reposting of the second item from the top of this list, with some updates