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 54: Digital Rights are Human Rights
Episode | January 22nd, 2021 | 52 mins 25 secs
digital rights, privacy, section 230, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Evan Greer, Deputy Director of digital rights activism group Fight for the Future about Section 230, politics, de-platforming, and internet policy.
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Episode 53: The SolarWinds Attack
Episode | December 22nd, 2020 | 52 mins 27 secs
solarwinds, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin and Petros Koutoupis about the SolarWinds hack, and Facebook's reaction to Apple privacy initiatives.
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Episode 52: Fragmentation and Outrage of the Week
Episode | December 18th, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins
development, privacy, software, surveillance, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about fragmentation and software development, the Amazon Halo, and surveilling school children.
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Episode 51: Poop in the Desert
Episode | December 11th, 2020 | 40 mins 13 secs
cryptography, open source, poop, space, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman have a fun chat with Petros Koutoupis about open source in space, digital detox, World War 2 cryptography, and poop in the desert.
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Episode 50: What Happened to Cyber Utopia?
Episode | December 4th, 2020 | 1 hr 3 mins
technology
Doc Searls and Jon Lebkowsky talk reality, social constructs, the internet, and disinformation.
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Episode 49: Parler, Ownership, and Open Source
Episode | November 20th, 2020 | 56 mins 54 secs
open source, social media, technology
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Petros Koutoupis, and Kyle Rankin talk Parler and platform lock-in, the concept of data, software, and hardware ownership, and the open source social contract.
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Episode 48: The Politics of Communication
Episode | November 13th, 2020 | 1 hr 4 mins
politics, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Professor Barbara Cherry of Indiana University about political division, legislation and regulation, technical evolution, and more.
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Episode 47: Revolutions
Episode | November 6th, 2020 | 53 mins 32 secs
technology
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Petros Koutoupis talk to active FOSS contributor and Apache community member, Hadrian Zbarcea, about revolutions, both technical and other.
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Episode 46: Facial Recognition, Surveillance Technology, and the Balance of Power
Episode | October 30th, 2020 | 58 mins 33 secs
ai, facial recognition, surveillance, technology
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Kyle Rankin talk about facial recognition and surveillance technology in the hands of individuals, and how that affects the balance of power.
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Episode 45: Social Media Regulation and Journalism
Episode | October 23rd, 2020 | 54 mins 9 secs
journalism, regulation, section 230, social media, technology
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Petros Koutoupis talk social media regulation and its relationship to journalism and the threat to Section 230.
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Episode 44: Podcasts Killed the Radio Star
Episode | October 16th, 2020 | 46 mins 58 secs
podcasting, radio, technology
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Petros Koutoupis discuss the evolution of podcasting vs. radio.
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Episode 43: Ad Tracking Runs Deep
Episode | October 9th, 2020 | 59 mins 5 secs
ad tech, ad tracking, privacy, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dr. Augustine Fou about his privacy analysis app, Page X-Ray, ad tracking, and data privacy.
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Episode 42: Camera Drones, Ad Trackers, and That Netflix Movie
Episode | October 2nd, 2020 | 51 mins 12 secs
technology
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Kyle Rankin, and Petros Koutoupis talk about Amazon's new flying camera, ad tech, and The Social Dilemma.
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Episode 41: TikTok and App Censorship
Episode | September 25th, 2020 | 50 mins 16 secs
security, technology
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin and Petros Koutoupis about TikTok and who controls your phone.
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Episode 40: Normalizing Surveillance
Episode | September 18th, 2020 | 33 mins 49 secs
technology
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Petros Koutoupis talk about Amazon's Alexa for landlords program.
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Episode 39: Weekly Dose of Reality
Episode | September 11th, 2020 | 54 mins 13 secs
technology
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Petros Koutoupis talk remote work, survival, and Facebook.