Doc Searls

David "Doc" Searls (born July 29, 1947) is an American journalist, author, and blogger. A longtime advocate for free and open-source software, he served as an editor of Linux Journal for twenty-five years, including as editor-in-chief, and received the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best Communicator in 2005. He is a co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto (2000) and author of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge (2012). He founded ProjectVRM at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and co-founded the Internet Identity Workshop, a twice-yearly conference on digital identity.