David "Doc" Searls (born on July 29, 1947) is a widely-read blogger and a columnist and senior editor for Linux Journal. He is often credited for originating the quote "Markets are conversations", which is also the first thesis in The Cluetrain Manifesto, which he co-wrote in 1999 with David Weinberger, Christopher Locke and Rick Levine. With David Weinberger he also co-wrote "World of Ends: What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else" (See NEA (internet). Both Weinberger and Searls are also fellows with Harvard's Berkman Center, where Searls heads ProjectVRM, a development effort toward Vendor Relationship Management. Image File history File links Docsearls. ... is the 210th day of the year (211th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). ... A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... Linux Journal is a monthly magazine published by SpecializedSystemsConsultants (SSC) of Seattle, first published in March 1994. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... David Weinberger (born 1950 in New York) is a technologist, professional speaker,[1] and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto (originally a website, and eventually a book, which has been described as a primer on Internet marketing [2]). Weinbergers work focuses on how the... Christopher Locke co-wrote the Cluetrain Manifesto and Gonzo Marketing. ... NEA, in the context of the internet and computing, is an acronym which stands for the maxim: No one owns it. ... The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is a department of Harvard Law School, which focuses on the legal study of cyberspace. ... VRM or Vendor Relationship Management, is the reciprocal of Customer Relationship Management. ...
DocSearls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal, co-author (with fellow Berkman Fellow David Weinberger and others) of The Cluetrain Manifesto, and one of the world's best-known and widely read bloggers.
Doc became a Berkman Fellow in August, 2006.
Doc has a B.A. in Philosophy from Guilford College, and is a Visiting Scholar with the Center for Information and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
DocSearls (doc@searls.com) is senior editor for Linux Journal, the leading magazine for the Linux "space," which has recently grown to include the front pages of most newspaper business sections and computer industry trade publications.
Doc has been writing on technology and other issues for most of his life.
He also continues to run The Searls Group, the Silicon Valley marketing consultancy he spun out of Hodskins Simone and Searls, which for many years was one of the top advertising and public relations agencies in the valley.
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