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 123: Open Source Home Automation with Home Assistant
Episode | August 26th, 2022 | 52 mins 15 secs
home automation, open source, privacy, technology
Katherine Druckman talks to Shawn Powers about home automation using a combination of open source software and proprietary devices using Home Assistant.
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Episode 122: Health Data and Human Rights
Episode | August 19th, 2022 | 1 hr 13 mins
health, human rights, open source, privacy, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Adrian Gropper, CTO of Patient Privacy Rights, about health data and human rights, delegating patient agency, and health data standards.
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Episode 121: Who Really Owns Your Car?
Episode | August 5th, 2022 | 53 mins 9 secs
cars, privacy, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin of Purism about the data cars collect, where it goes, and how we’re really just driving around in a smart phone that we don’t even own.
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Episode 120: I'm Here (aka Happy Birthday, Doc)
Episode | July 30th, 2022 | 44 mins 54 secs
privacy, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls celebrate Doc's birthday and chat about Amazon acquisitions and privacy legislation.
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Episode 118: Design and Fabrication with Inventables
Episode | July 15th, 2022 | 59 mins 47 secs
design, hardware, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Zach Kaplan, CEO of Inventables, about design and fabrication with 3D carving, maker culture, and the history of Inventables.
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Episode 117: Thrivacy
Episode | July 8th, 2022 | 49 mins 12 secs
decentralization, identity, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Gordon Jones and Erica Barnette about Thrivacy, their new digital wallet for private, verifiable credentials.
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Episode 116: The state of the CMS vs Silos
Episode | June 24th, 2022 | 53 mins 23 secs
cms, drupal, open source, technology
Tune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Adam Bergstein about the evolution of CMSes, the current landscape, and how they fit in with today’s siloed web.
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Episode 115: Geeks in Space
Episode | June 17th, 2022 | 58 mins 42 secs
space, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Paul Bailey of Cognitive Space about open source code, aerospace engineering, managing satellites, and the space shuttle! Listen to the end for your next weekend project.
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Episode 114: Ethical Advertising
Episode | June 10th, 2022 | 58 mins 53 secs
advertising, privacy, technology
Tune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin of Purism about how to advertise without being creepy.
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Episode 113: Authentic Users and Data
Episode | May 27th, 2022 | 1 hr 18 mins
cryptography, identity, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dave Huseby of Cryptid.tech about pseudonymous authentication and verifiable data.
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Episode 111: Peer-to-Peer Messaging with Quiet
Episode | May 13th, 2022 | 1 hr 17 mins
messaging, privacy, security, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin and Holmes Wilson about Quiet, a Tor-based peer-to-peer messaging project.
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Episode 110: More on Mastodon
Episode | May 6th, 2022 | 50 mins 52 secs
open source, social media, technology
Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Shawn Powers have far too much fun continuing the conversation about Mastodon and the fediverse, with a dose of photography.
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Episode 108: Microtargeting Warfare and Other Ad Tech Nightmares
Episode | April 22nd, 2022 | 1 hr 2 mins
ad tech, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Don Marti about ad tech and its many consequences, as well as recent efforts to reform it.
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Episode 107: Building the Decentralized Web
Episode | April 15th, 2022 | 1 hr 13 mins
decentralization, identity, technology, web 3.0
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to James Walker of Fission about building the decentralized web, decentralized identity, IPFS, and empowering users.
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Episode 106: Revisiting Privacy
Episode | April 8th, 2022 | 42 mins 14 secs
privacy, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls revisit the topic of data privacy.
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Episode 105: What is the Digital Markets Act?
Episode | April 1st, 2022 | 35 mins 12 secs
apple, privacy, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about the Digital Markets Act and Apple's personal finance plans.