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 149 Episodes.
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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.
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Episode 104: Digital Archives and Nomads
Episode | March 25th, 2022 | 1 hr 7 mins
technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Steven Roberts about digitizing media, photography, and retro computing.
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Episode 102: The Unforgettable Episode
Episode | March 11th, 2022 | 54 mins 30 secs
memory loss
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman go a bit off-topic and talk to Shawn Powers about his memory loss.
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Episode 101: The Elephant in the Room, Journalism, and Disinformation
Episode | March 4th, 2022 | 44 mins 45 secs
journalism, technology, war
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn Powers discuss wartime journalism and misinformation, and Shawn's brain.
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Episode 100: A Celebration with IPFS, Web3, and Home Automation
Episode | February 25th, 2022 | 43 mins 43 secs
blockchain, technology, web3
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Shawn Powers, and Petros Koutoupis celebrate our 100th episode and talk Web3, IPFS, and home automation.
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Episode 99: IdRamp and Identity Solutions
Episode | February 18th, 2022 | 54 mins 53 secs
decentralization, identity, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Mike Vesey, CEO of IdRamp, about verifiable credentials, decentralization, and real-world identity solutions.
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Episode 98: You Win Some, You Lose Some (Billions)
Episode | February 4th, 2022 | 36 mins 1 sec
ad tech, privacy, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Petros Koutoupis about how big tech navigates the ad tech landscape, for better or worse.
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Episode 97: ID.me Vs. The Alternatives
Episode | January 28th, 2022 | 59 mins 51 secs
identity, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kaliya Young of the Internet Identity Workshop about ID.me, our concerns about its use as a national ID, and potential alternatives.
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Episode 96: Absolute Privacy Through Cryptography
Episode | January 21st, 2022 | 1 hr 18 mins
cryptography, security, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dave Huseby about privacy, cryptography, and authentic data.
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Episode 95: What Was Web 2.0?
Episode | January 14th, 2022 | 27 mins 45 secs
privacy, technology, web 2.0, web 3.0
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Petros Koutoupis about Air Tags and the generations of the web.
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Episode 94: The Fun Holiday Episode
Episode | December 10th, 2021 | 49 mins 37 secs
gadgets, hobbies, technology
Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, Shawn Powers, and Kyle Rankin talk about everything from microphones to roombas to pottery in our last episode of 2021.
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Episode 93: Quad9 and DNS
Episode | December 3rd, 2021 | 55 mins 58 secs
dns, privacy, security, technology
Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls and Kyle Rankin talk to John Todd from Quad9 about DNS, privacy, security and their open DNS recursive service.
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Episode 92: The DIY Episode
Episode | November 19th, 2021 | 54 mins 41 secs
diy, fun, technology
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Shawn Powers, and Kyle Rankin talk right to repair Apple devices, cocktails, and our nerdy hobbies.
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Episode 91: The Metaverse
Episode | November 5th, 2021 | 52 mins 14 secs
metaverse, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin about the metaverse of Facebook and beyond, how it may intersect with Web 3 and blockchain, as well as Second Life and the verses that came before.
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Episode 90: Can Facebook Be the Good Guy?
Episode | October 29th, 2021 | 1 hr 6 mins
privacy, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers and Petros Koutoupis about Facebook’s metaverse focus and whistleblower problems.
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Episode 89: Digital Identity
Episode | October 22nd, 2021 | 47 mins 3 secs
identity, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Phil Windley about digital identity, picos, oauth, and big tech ecosystems.