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
Getting Past Telco 1.0
November 3, 2008
EOF - Lincoln and Whitman's Unfinished Business
November 1, 2008
It's All Like... What?
October 29, 2008
Blogging = Freedom
October 21, 2008
Keeping the Kernel Klean
October 13, 2008
Stallman vs. Clouds
October 6, 2008
Linux turns 17
October 5, 2008
EOF - Why We Need Hackers to Fix Health Care
October 1, 2008
Stay of execution for Internet radio
September 30, 2008
GACL
September 21, 2008
What They're Using: Michael Anti and His Eee PC
September 12, 2008
Watch Africa Today
September 2, 2008
One Tale of Two Scientific Distros
September 1, 2008
EOF - What Happens after Next February?
September 1, 2008
Obama's Secret Weapon: Geeks. Lots of Them
August 25, 2008
It sucks because it's good
August 21, 2008
Shooting Linux World Expo
August 9, 2008
EOF - Mixing Up a Generative Mobile Feast
August 1, 2008
Is Google's Knol already becoming a den of spam?
July 31, 2008
What Google Does (and needs to keep doing)
July 28, 2008
Opening the Cellwaves
July 27, 2008
The new business of free radio
July 24, 2008
Missing Code Challenge
July 13, 2008
Saving the Net III: Understanding its Frames
July 9, 2008
What happens after TV's mainframe era ends next February?
July 5, 2008
Time to school the FCC on what "free" really means
July 2, 2008
EOF - A Tale of Two Futures
July 1, 2008
The Patient as the Platform
June 24, 2008
Linux in Amsterdam
May 31, 2008
Who Controls Your Data?
May 11, 2008
With Linux vs. Because of Linux
May 7, 2008
Comparing hard and soft infrastructure
May 1, 2008
EOF - The Bigger Switch
May 1, 2008
EOF - The Multiple Play
May 1, 2008
Beyond Telecom: Bob Frankston on the Future We Make for Ourselves
May 1, 2008
Is Linux now a slave to corporate masters?
April 30, 2008
Is government open source code we can patch?
April 29, 2008
Understanding Infrastructure
April 19, 2008
EOF - Getting Real about the Ideal
April 1, 2008
The Glass Roots Revolution
March 31, 2008
Blogging vs. Flogging
March 31, 2008
Leveraging Free
March 24, 2008
Who is in charge of my privacy?
March 14, 2008
Behind the Low-End Linux Box that Sold Out at Wal-Mart
March 1, 2008
EOF - Driving Markets from Our Own Kernels
March 1, 2008
What's Next for Open Source and Public Media?
February 21, 2008
The Volunteer Economy
February 11, 2008
Yahoo's Openness Asset
February 4, 2008
What happens if Microsoft buys Yahoo?
February 1, 2008
Some assignments for Social Graph Foo Camp
February 1, 2008
EOF - Life in the Vast Lane
February 1, 2008
Journalism in a world of open code and open self-education
January 30, 2008
What open code developers can teach PR
January 21, 2008
Picturing CES, continued
January 13, 2008
Picturing CES
January 8, 2008
The Tide Shifts at CES
January 8, 2008
Hunting Linux at CES
January 5, 2008
Dependence vs. Independence. That's the choice.
January 4, 2008
EOF - Why to Build on FOSS in the First Place
January 1, 2008
Remembering Bruce Steinberg
December 31, 2007
Why Big Compute and Big Storage will meet Big Pipe at the Last Mile
December 23, 2007
EOF - The Power of the Individual, Modeled by Open-Source Development
December 1, 2007
Let's keep photography and mapping mashable
November 23, 2007
Show us your Chumby
November 16, 2007
What could be better than advertising?
November 16, 2007
Linux for Suits - The Usefulness Paradigm
November 1, 2007
What does the Microsoft "partnership" with Facebook mean for users?
October 26, 2007
Maybe UCANN school ICANN on whois
October 25, 2007
Linux for Suits - Atlas: Hoisting a New World of Search
October 1, 2007
How about an Index of Openness?
September 29, 2007
Looking for the next Net business
September 26, 2007
Wanted: OPML editor on Linux
September 20, 2007
Thanking our own heaven on OneWebDay
September 18, 2007
The Ultimate Linux Handheld
September 1, 2007
Linux for Suits - Navigating with the Nokia N800
September 1, 2007
Is free and open code a form of infrastructure? How about the humans who write it?
August 31, 2007
On valuing freedom more than cushy jail cells
August 25, 2007
What could you do with fat fiber?
August 3, 2007
Linux for Suits - Work to Be Done
August 1, 2007
How high is the LAMP stack?
July 31, 2007
Linux for Suits - Beyond Blogging's Black Holes
July 1, 2007
Why are privacy and advertising strange bedfellows?
June 13, 2007
Linux for Suits - Picking New Fights
June 1, 2007
An open source approach to fixing public media funding
May 29, 2007
Getting beyond Brad's Paradox
May 25, 2007
Linux for Suits - Penguins in Winnipeg
May 1, 2007
Mike and Tux, sitting in a tree...
April 19, 2007
Thinking Past Platforms: the Next Challenge for Linux
April 16, 2007
Linux for Suits - Why an iPhone When We Can Make Our Own Open Phone?
April 1, 2007
A Public Market for Public Music
March 29, 2007
Internet Radio on Death Row
March 8, 2007
Can Apple clear the way for the Linux desktop?
March 4, 2007
Linux for Suits - DIY Internet Infrastructure
March 1, 2007
Building an Relationship Economy
February 15, 2007
Putting the Wholes Together
February 5, 2007
Linux for Suits - Migrating a Mentality
February 1, 2007
HD as the first step beyond TV
January 24, 2007
Watering the Net Roots
January 20, 2007
The mobile revolution gets personal
January 12, 2007
The silent victory of Linux-as-geology at CES 2007
January 9, 2007