Doc Searls

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Doc Searls

David "Doc" Searls (* 1947 in New Jersey ) is an American speaker, author and journalist .

Life

As a supporter of open source software , Searls worked as an author in the Linux Journal from 1996 , of which he has been editor-in-chief since 1999. His column "Linux for Suits" appeared until 2007. For his work in the Linux Journal and his advocacy of free software, he received the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2005. Searls has written numerous other magazine articles.

In 1999, together with David Weinberger , Christopher Locke and Rick Levine, he wrote the controversial Cluetrain Manifesto , which first appeared on a website and became a bestseller in 2000 as a book of the same name that has been translated into many languages. A special edition of the manifesto was published in 2009 for the 10th anniversary.

Searls has also been a well-known and valued blogger since 1999, who primarily deals with the topics of the Internet and society.

His academic activities began in 2006. At the Berkman Center for Internet & Society , he headed ProjectVRM, which is dedicated to independent software development around the concept of Vendor Relationship Management (VRM). At the Center for Information Technology & Society (CITS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara , Searls conducts research on the structural nature of the Internet.

Searls lives with his family in Santa Barbara and is a passionate photographer who publishes most of his images in the public domain under the Creative Commons license. His Flickr collection contains around 45,000 images, and many of his images can also be found as illustrations for articles on Wikipedia.

Publications

  • Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, David Weinberger, Doc Searls: Das Cluetrain Manifest. 95 theses for the new corporate culture in the digital age . Econ Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-430-15967-9
  • The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge Harvard Business Review Press 2012, ISBN 1-4221-5852-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weblogs: A New Source of News , by JD Lasica, April 18, 2002, Online Journalism Review
  2. ^ Doc Searls Flickr photos , Flickr
  3. ↑ Wikimedia Commons . Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved September 2, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Searls, Doc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Searls, David (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and speaker on the Internet
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH New Jersey