Doc Searls

Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal, co-author (with fellow Berkman Fellow David Weinberger and others) of The Cluetrain Manifesto, and a well-known and widely quoted blogger (he's been blogging since 1999). His work as a journalist, speaker and advocate of the Internet led to a Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best Communicator in 2005. In "The World is Flat," Thomas L. Friedman calls Doc "one of the most respected technology writers in America."

Doc became a Berkman Fellow in August, 2006 and leads ProjectVRM, an international development and research effort toward reforming markets by providing customers with tools both of independence from vendors and better engagement with them. He is also working on a book titled "The Intention Economy: What Happens When Customers Get Real Power."

Doc has a B.A. in Philosophy from Guilford College, and is a Visiting Scholar with the Center for Information and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara.