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 71: Tons of Tracking Tech
Episode | May 28th, 2021 | 27 mins 10 secs
advertising, privacy, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about Apple’s IDFA, Ford In-Car ads, and more about AirTags.
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Episode 70: Apple AirTags and Privacy
Episode | May 14th, 2021 | 42 mins 47 secs
apple, privacy, technology
Tune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk Apple Airtags and privacy.
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Episode 69: What’s Up With Basecamp?
Episode | May 7th, 2021 | 33 mins 49 secs
technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about Basecamp’s new policy on workplace political conversation.
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Episode 68: Signal Snoops On Cellebrite as They Snoop On Us
Episode | April 30th, 2021 | 1 hr 15 mins
privacy, security, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls chat with Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers about Signal’s exposure of vulnerabilities in Cellebrite’s mobile device hacking software.
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Episode 67: It’s a Great Effing Island
Episode | April 23rd, 2021 | 39 mins 20 secs
intentcasting, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls discuss a new approach to intent broadcasting, the end of tracking, and the island of Kauai.
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Episode 65: The Big Round World Outside the Browser
Episode | April 9th, 2021 | 59 mins 19 secs
art, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers about comic art, ecommerce, and the world beyond the browser.
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Episode 64: Who is Accountable for Disinformation?
Episode | April 2nd, 2021 | 40 mins 26 secs
disinformation, social media, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about responsibility for disinformation, congressional hearings, and the Suez canal.
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Episode 63: Is Your Privacy Set by Marketers in Aeron Chairs?
Episode | March 26th, 2021 | 1 hr 7 secs
privacy, regulation, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Don Marti and Shawn Powers about realistic data privacy measures, surveillance marketing, and privacy regulation.
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Episode 62: How Did Disinformation Become the Truth?
Episode | March 19th, 2021 | 46 mins 55 secs
iot, security, social media, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Prof. Chris Bronk, Ph.D. and Petros Koutoupis about disinformation and cyber security, and how they impact our lives, as well as IoT vulnerabilities and voice recognition technology.
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Episode 61: The Future of Authenticating Your Data
Episode | March 12th, 2021 | 1 hr 7 mins
blockchain, cryptography, identity, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Dave Huseby about the authentic data economy, and the future of authentication.
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Episode 60: SpaceX, Starlink, and Mozilla State Partitioning
Episode | March 5th, 2021 | 41 mins 35 secs
privacy, space, technology, web
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about Starlink, SpaceX and Mozilla’s new state partitioning privacy feature in Firefox.
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Episode 59: FOSS, Mentorship, and Doing Great Work
Episode | February 26th, 2021 | 1 hr 5 mins
automated testing, drupal, engineering, open source, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Travis Carden and Petros Koutoupis about maintaining open source projects, mentoring contributors, Drupal, and automated testing.
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Episode 58: So Someone Stole Your Identity
Episode | February 19th, 2021 | 1 hr 3 mins
security, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers and Kyle Rankin about protecting yourself online, password and security best practices, and a tragic tale.
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Episode 57: You Look Familiar, Did I See You on the Internet?
Episode | February 12th, 2021 | 44 mins 49 secs
facial recognition, technology
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk facial recognition AI using our photos for training, and how we collectively negotiate our own privacy online.
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Episode 56: The Age of the Moderator
Episode | February 5th, 2021 | 41 mins 58 secs
privacy, social media, technology
Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls and Petros Koutoupis talk Twitter's new Birdwatch experiment, Signal's resistance to moderation, and Redditors' impact on the stock market.
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Episode 55: Radio Broadcasting
Episode | January 29th, 2021 | 56 mins 3 secs
radio, technology
Doc Searls and Petros Koutoupis talk to Dean Landsman and Paul Walker about radio broadcasting, including long distance coverage.