[A note up front. All comments to this blog that come from commercial locations are likely to be flagged and bagged as spam.]
Okay, here are the many hats I wear:
- Senior editor for Linux Journal, the original (and still the leading) Linux publication.
- Alumnus fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. There I head ProjectVRM. I also just finished a book for Harvard Business Review Press titled The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge, due out in May 2012.
- Research Fellow at the Center for Information Technology & Society at UC Santa Barbara. There my focus is on work toward a book about the Internet and infrastructure, titled The Giant Zero.
- One of the four authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto, the iconoclastic web site that became the best-selling book in 2000 and still sells around the world in many languages. A 10th anniversary edition came out in 2009.
- A radio veteran from way back (that’s where the “Doc” nickname came from). I sublimate that now by taking part in podcasts by others, including Steve Gillmor’s Gillmor Gang.
- A marketing, PR and advertising veteran. Most notably I co-founded Hodskins Simone & Searls, which was born in North Carolina in the late ’70s and grew in the late ’80s and early ’90s to become one of Silicon Valley’s top advertising and public relations agencies. (HS&S was absorbed by Publicis Technology in 1998.)
- A lifelong writer whose byline has appeared in OMNI, Wired, PC Magazine, The Standard, The Sun, Upside, The Globe & Mail, Harvard Business Review, Release 1.0 and lots of other places, including (of course) Linux Journal. Some archives are collected at Reality 2.0, which is at my personal portal, Searls.com, which is also home to my consultancy, The Searls Group.
- A frequent speaker on any and all the above subjects. Here is my profile (now getting real old and in need of updating) at the agency that handles my gigs, Leading Authorities.
In 2005 I received the Google/O’Reilly Open Source Award for Best Communicator.
In 2007 I was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in IT by eWeek.
Since I’m always working on too many things, and will only stop when I’m dead, I want my epitaph to read, “He was almost finished.”
I can be reached by email through doc at my first name] @ [my last name] .com or dsearls at cyber.law.harvard.edu. I tweet as @dsearls.
Copyright 2011 Doc Searls
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Pingback from TWiL Episode 26: Health Care and VRM on August 14, 2009 at 5:24 am
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I’m not so into twittering myself, but apparently half of the world is. What is more interesting to me it the technology behind it, A proprietary solution is alway a dependent one… Maybe if there would be a twitter framework based on torrents. Say you could launch a torrent with you first tweet and after that your new tweets are delivered via the same torrent by torrent clients around the world. There would be a ‘cloud’ of people following/offering your tweets, And people could follow your tweets from one general proprietary free source. You only need a website to host the torrents, but they can be distributed even by email…There may be a time delay problem but as interest grows also the availability of your tweets grows. And it’s completely proprietary free!
Just a idea, maybe there was already thought about this… I never heard about it, and it seems interesting to me…
Greetings,
Geert -
Once again love the content and ideas you have to offer. Big revelation of reading Cluetrain this year , I was only a kid when it originally came out. Many of us were thinking this as we were weighed down with the corporate cereal packet toys or yo yos (actually coke yo yo was alright) but you felt your identiity as consumer was stolen or silent.
The Linux culture is big here in Europe too where I live so again thanks, I know you did not design but thanks anyhow. Hope the listening and conversational marketplace is alive this year. Hope this is a year of conversations.
Dara Bell
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Pingback from Jarvis, Searls « IT ruminations on February 26, 2010 at 3:39 am
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Hello,
I am a student at Cal Poly Pomona in California, taking a website design class.
My current assignment requires a “travel” website and I decided to build it for Baker, California.
I would like to use your photo “DumontDunes.jpg” that I found in the Wikimedia Commons for the assignment. I cannot determine your attribution requirements. Please advise the proper for of attribution for the use of this picture.
The usage is strictly non-commercial and the website will exist only until mid-June of 2010.
You are welcome to reference my class website at http://www.csupomona.edu/~ronaldj/cis311/home.htm to review the work I have already done for this class. As you can see from the site quality, I would not qualify as a commercial developer.
Thank you for your time,
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Ron, Please feel free to use any of my potos any way you like. They’re all Creative Commons licensed to permit that anyway.
Doc
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Doc:
I heard you speak at SBCC in 2004 on blogs, wiki and pings and soon after started my own blog. Now I’ve even gone and written a book on the subject (for healthcare leaders) and have you to thank for getting me started. So,
Thank you, Doc!
http://www.ache.org/pubs/redesign/productcatalog.cfm?pc=WWW1-2152
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You might be interested in my blog on The Record, formerly of Hackensack, N.J. I came across your entry on Borg’s Woods and Maywood.
Cheers,
Victor Sasson -
Pingback from A brand is what a brand does | Creativity_Unbound on May 26, 2010 at 9:47 pm
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Hi Doc,
Could you please also publish The Cluetrain Manifesto
on http://changethis.com/. Just the “95 theses” with your ‘plug’ about the whole book.
I think it would spread there.
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“He was almost finished.” – Man, that’s a good one! You sure have lots of achievements during your life time… 100 Most Influential People in IT. Wow! Although I cannot find your Twitter profile; someone mentioned here. Do you happen to have one because I would like to follow you? Keep up the good work.
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Pingback from Assignment #1 – COM499 on August 23, 2011 at 12:51 pm
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I am learning the art of blogging as some of your other readers are doing and it is always nice to find someone doing something inspiring in this arena as inspiration for me. I love writing the content, but the IT side of it can be overwhelming! Thanks for your inspiration and knowledge.
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Your epitaph says it all. I dread mine might end up a variation on the same theme. I’m also working on writing a book, which seems one of the slowest processes I’ve ever gotten involved with. I sure hope to finish it before that epitaph overtakes me…
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Your Gilmore Gang link is now going to a wordpress demo site. Looks like GG moved here.
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@dsearls + # tweets
- “@jowyang: Another great post on The Dynamic Customer Journey http://t.co/S3BbcQk8 by @alexvdm” #vrm May 25, 2012 cavepainting (Anandan (AJ))
- Think outside the cash cow! #FreeCustomers is the biz model to replace the #AdvertisingBubble http://t.co/b2CG5ilU #IntentCast #VRM May 25, 2012 mask (Beto Saavedra)
- ¿Quieres saber donde apunta el modelo de negocio de la WEB? lee http://t.co/9zuTSDaG #AdvertisingBubble #intentcast #4thparties #VRM May 25, 2012 betolive (Beto Saavedra)
- V thoughtful RT @dsearls: After Facebook Fails http://t.co/ePPVl2KD learnings from @JohnBattelle's http://t.co/P6d508Q0 +comments #VRM May 24, 2012 nigelcameron (Nigel Cameron)
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