Doc Searls

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Doc Searls is editor-in-chief of Linux Journal, where he has been on the masthead since 1996. He is also co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto (Basic Books, 2000, 2010), author of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012), a fellow of the Center for Information Technology & Society (CITS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an alumnus fellow of the Berkman Klien Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He continues to run ProjectVRM, which he launched at the BKC in 2006, and is a co-founder and board member of its nonprofit spinoff, Customer Commons. Contact Doc through ljeditor@linuxjournal.com.

Articles by Doc Searls
Where the Internet Gets Real
August 2, 2019
Episode 23: Advertisers: Don't Be Creepy
July 18, 2019
In the End Is the Command Line
July 3, 2019
Episode 21: From Mac to Linux
June 20, 2019
Episode 20: Advertising is Broken, but Linux Isn't.
June 7, 2019
Linux's Broadening Foundation
June 6, 2019
Blindered by the GDPR
May 25, 2019
Episode 19: Democratizing Cybersecurity
May 24, 2019
We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible
May 8, 2019
Episode 18: KidOYO
April 29, 2019
The Kids Take Over
April 8, 2019
Linux Journal at 25
April 1, 2019
Why We Need Our Nonprofits
March 26, 2019
Episode 17: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
March 25, 2019
Episode 16: Digital Stalking
March 11, 2019
The Digital Unconformity
March 6, 2019
A Line in the Sand
February 13, 2019
Episode 15: Learning Python
February 11, 2019
Episode 14: Digital Sovereignty
January 28, 2019
Data Privacy Year
January 28, 2019
Is Privacy a Right?
January 23, 2019
Episode 13: Surveillance Marketing
January 18, 2019
Where There's No Distance or Gravity
January 15, 2019
Episode 12: Vendor Lock-in
January 11, 2019
If Your Privacy Is in the Hands of Others Alone, You Don’t Have Any
January 9, 2019
Episode 11: Moving the Chairs
January 3, 2019
Episode 10: Hydrants and Sirens
December 17, 2018
How Can We Bring FOSS to the Virtual World?
December 10, 2018
Episode 9: Humanity, Magic, and Glitter
December 7, 2018
Episode 8: Nostalgia, Security, and Shawn
November 27, 2018
Reality2.0 - Episode 7: Sounding Alarms
November 13, 2018
freenode #live 2018 - Doc Searls and Simon Phipps - In Conversation
November 13, 2018
An Immodest Proposal for the Music Industry
November 8, 2018
Episode 6: Conferences and Community
November 7, 2018
Episode 5: Linux is Personal
October 31, 2018
Episode 4: All About Security
October 24, 2018
When the Problem Is the Story
October 19, 2018
Episode 3: Microsoft and Patents
October 14, 2018
Episode 2: Privacy is Personal
October 10, 2018
Episode 1: Digital Privacy
October 3, 2018
Shall We Study Amazon's Pricing Together?
October 2, 2018
Join the Linux Journal Crusade
September 4, 2018
Engineers vs. Re-engineering
August 2, 2018
OSCON at 19, Open Source at 20, Linux at 27
July 26, 2018
Open Source at 20
July 17, 2018
Advertising 3.0
July 4, 2018
Our Immodest Ambitions
June 8, 2018
Let's Solve the Deeper Problem That Makes Facebook's Bad Acting Possible
June 8, 2018
A Brand Advertising Restoration Project
May 31, 2018
The Fight for Control: Andrew Lee on Open-Sourcing PIA
May 30, 2018
An FUQ for the GDPR
May 24, 2018
Cookies That Go the Other Way
May 21, 2018
Privacy Is Still Personal
May 4, 2018
How Wizards and Muggles Break Free from the Matrix
April 4, 2018
Thinking and Working Outside the Platform
March 27, 2018
Help Us Cure Online Publishing of Its Addiction to Personal Data
March 14, 2018
What's the Geek Take on the GDPR?
March 12, 2018
Worth Saving
February 4, 2018
Every User a Neo
January 31, 2018
$25k Linux Journalism Fund
January 18, 2018
Let's talk advertising
January 6, 2018
Now What?
January 3, 2018
New Hope for Digital Identity
November 9, 2017
The Actually Distributed Web
August 8, 2017
Linux for Everyone—All 7.5 Billion of Us
July 6, 2017
Open Source Comes of Age
June 6, 2017
Will Anything Make Linux Obsolete?
May 9, 2017
How to Fix the Edge
April 13, 2017
The Problem with "Content"
March 7, 2017
From vs. to + for Microsoft and Linux
February 7, 2017
Debugging Democracy
January 5, 2017
Progress on Privacy
December 8, 2016
Pancaking the Pyramid Economy
November 3, 2016
A New Mental Model for Computers and Networks
October 6, 2016
Identity: Our Last Stand
September 8, 2016
Happy Birthday Linux
August 25, 2016
A New Project for Linux at 25
August 4, 2016
Doing for User Space What We Did for Kernel Space
July 6, 2016
The Giant Zero, Part 0.x
June 16, 2016
What's Our Next Fight?
June 7, 2016
Privacy and the New Math
May 9, 2016
What's the Kernel Space of Democracy?
April 5, 2016
To Appreciate a Life
March 2, 2016
Giving Silos Their Due
February 2, 2016
What We Can Do with Ad Blocking's Leverage
January 4, 2016
Celebrating Ian Murdock
December 30, 2015
Can We Save Wireless from Regulators?
December 3, 2015
How Will the Big Data Craze Play Out?
November 4, 2015
Dealing with Boundary Issues
October 2, 2015
The True Internet of Things
September 2, 2015
Three More Lessons
August 4, 2015
Privacy Is Personal
July 2, 2015
An Easy Way to Pay for Journalism, Music and Everything Else We Like
May 4, 2015
Consent That Goes Both Ways
April 2, 2015
Resurrecting the Armadillo
March 4, 2015
You're the Boss with UBOS
February 3, 2015
Hats Off to Mozilla
January 2, 2015
How Can We Get Business to Care about Freedom, Openness and Interoperability?
December 3, 2014
Big Bad Data
November 4, 2014
Learn GNU/Linux the Fun Way
October 2, 2014