Doc Searls is 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. He was recently editor-in-chief of the long-running premier open source publication, Linux Journal.
Doc Searls has hosted 148 Episodes.
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Episode 141: User Sovereignty and Authenticity in Commerce
Episode | March 1st, 2023 | 54 mins 57 secs
identity, privacy, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls hear Dave Huseby's new ideas about identity verification and data authenticity in commerce.
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Episode 140: Is AI the New Search?
Episode | February 22nd, 2023 | 48 mins 9 secs
ai, search, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Ezequiel Lanza about AI-based search.
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Episode 139: Permission Slip, a Consumer Reports Privacy App
Episode | February 9th, 2023 | 51 mins 9 secs
ccpa, privacy, technology
Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk to Don Marti about Permission Slip, the new data privacy app from Consumer Reports.
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Episode 137: Humans Are More Necessary Than Ever
Episode | January 17th, 2023 | 55 mins 6 secs
ai, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dan Miller of Opus Research about the future of Speech and AI.
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Episode 136: Happy New Year!
Episode | January 11th, 2023 | 46 mins 39 secs
advertising, privacy, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk about Facebook's recent Irish problems, Google's Performance Max ad product, and digress into discussing the Houston food scene as we welcome back Reality 2.0 for 2023.
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Episode 135: Experts Weigh in on ChatGPT
Episode | December 20th, 2022 | 59 mins 51 secs
ai, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Ezequiel Lanza and Tony Mongkolsmai about ChatGPT, generative AI, and open source software.
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Episode 134: Email Disaster, Encrypted Backups and Chat GPT
Episode | December 13th, 2022 | 53 mins 25 secs
ai, security, technology
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn have fun with ChatGPT, rant about email disasters, and chat about Apple's new encrypted backups.
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Episode 133: Hardware Supply Chains, Trust Agility, and Avoiding Vendor Lock-in
Episode | December 6th, 2022 | 1 hr 8 mins
fediverse, identity, mastodon, security, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about hardware supply chains, building the only USA-made mobile phone, trust, open standards, and much more.
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Episode 132: Mastodon Lifeboats for Twitter Users
Episode | November 15th, 2022 | 1 hr 10 mins
mastodon, social media, technology
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Shawn Powers, and Kyle Rankin discuss the ups, downs, and how-tos of using Mastodon amid Twitter's recent instability.
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Episode 131: Digital Wallets
Episode | November 5th, 2022 | 53 mins 47 secs
identity, technology
Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk digital wallets and current events.
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Episode 130: What Happens to Twitter Now?
Episode | October 22nd, 2022 | 48 mins 4 secs
social media, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls speculate about Twitter's future and discuss the evolution of audience engagement.
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Episode 129: Communication Breakdown
Episode | October 15th, 2022 | 42 mins 42 secs
democracy, social media, technology
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn Powers talk communication breakdown in social media, its impact on our culture, and what technical solutions may exist.
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Episode 127: Religion, Politics, and Other Taboo Subjects
Episode | October 1st, 2022 | 52 mins 29 secs
politics, religion, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers about religion, politics, tribalism, sexism, and viral blog posts.
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Episode 126: Publishers vs The Internet Archive
Episode | September 24th, 2022 | 36 mins 5 secs
archives, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk about Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit targeting the Internet Archive that aims to prevent them from lending ebooks.
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Episode 125: Apple Update
Episode | September 9th, 2022 | 31 mins 36 secs
apple, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman discuss Apple's latest updates, the end of an era, neighborhoods, and more.
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Episode 124: DWeb Camp
Episode | September 2nd, 2022 | 36 mins 22 secs
events, technology
Katherine Druckman talks to Doc Searls about his Decentralized Web Camp experience.