Doc Searls

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Doc Searls
Born (1947-07-29) July 29, 1947 (age 76)
Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation(s)Author, Journalist, Podcaster, Photographer
Websitesearls.com, blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc [dead link]

David "Doc" Searls (born July 29, 1947), is an American journalist, columnist, and a widely read

Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
, and co-host of the Reality 2.0 Podcast.

Overview

Searls' journalism career began in 1971, when he worked as an editor and photographer for Wayne Today in New Jersey.

A longtime advocate for

Release 1.0 and The Globe and Mail
.

In early 1999 Searls joined Christopher Locke, David Weinberger and Rick Levine in writing The Cluetrain Manifesto, an iconoclastic website that was followed in January 2000 by the book with the same title. The book was published in nine languages. A 10th Anniversary edition came out in June 2009. Among Searls' contributions to the Manifesto was its first thesis, "Markets are conversations"—also the title of the Cluetrain chapter he co-wrote with David Weinberger. Weinberger and Searls co-wrote "World of Ends: What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else".

Searls has also been a blogger since October 1999, when he started blogging with help from his friend

J.D. Lasica calls Searls "one of the deep thinkers in the blog movement."[2]

In

Thomas L. Friedman calls Searls "one of the most respected technology writers in America."[3]

Searls' two academic fellowships both began in 2006. At the

Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara
, Searls is studying both the nature of infrastructure and of the Internet as a form of infrastructure.

In April 2012, his book

The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge was published. Searls coined the term in an article for Linux Journal. He wrote: "The Intention Economy grows around buyers, not sellers. It leverages the simple fact that buyers are the first source of money, and that they come ready-made. You don't need advertising to make them."[4]

In September 2018, Searls spoke at

TedX Santa Barbara, giving a talk titled [5]
"The Story isn't the Whole Story: Journalism in the digital age is challenged by a business model of automated advertising that creates widespread distrust. Truth is getting lost in the process. What can we do about that?"

Background

The nickname "Doc" is what Searls calls a "fossil remnant" of "Doctor Dave", his humorous persona at WDBS (now WXDU) radio at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, in the late 1970s.[6] Following his work in radio, Searls co-founded Hodskins Simone & Searls (HS&S). Searls' consultancy, The Searls Group, was spun out of HS&S in the early 1990s. He is a frequent speaker at business and industry events, under the auspices of The Searls Group.

Searls is a 1969 graduate of Guilford College. While Searls' permanent home is in Santa Barbara, he and his family currently live most of the year near his work at Harvard.

References

  1. ^ "Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards - Hall of Fame". Google Developers. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  2. ^ Weblogs: A New Source of News, by J.D. Lasica, 2002-04-18, Online Journalism Review
  3. ^ Thomas L. Friedman calls Doc "one of the most respected technology writers in America.”, by Thomas L. Friedman
  4. ^ Searls, Doc (March 8, 2006). "The Intention Economy". Linux Journal. Retrieved September 28, 2007.
  5. ^ Foley, Christopher (August 5, 2018). "Doc Searls | The Story isn't the whole story". TEDxSantaBarbara. Archived from the original on September 30, 2023.
  6. ^ "Getting rained out in a brainstorm", February 4, 2009, Doc Searls Weblog.

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