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 one of the world's best-known and widely read bloggers. 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. His work with Berkman is focused in three areas: 1) the growing power and independence of individuals in networked markets; 2) the need for user-centric identity technologies and standards; and 3) the importance of both to the continued freedom and growth of the Internet.

His current projects include identity-related events (either sponsored by or involving the Berkman Center), and research toward a book on individual empowerment in networked markets -- and the role of that empowerment in the healthy growth of the Internet. Doc looks forward to collaborating with other Berkman Fellows on these projects, and to taking advantage of student and faculty resources as well. 

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.