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 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.
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Episode 88: Can We Fix Facebook?
Episode | October 8th, 2021 | 1 hr 6 mins
technology
Tune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Jerry Michalski and Petros Koutoupis about Facebook, its weaknesses, relationship to its users, and impact on all of us, and what happens when it disappears for six hours.