# Doc Searls

> David "Doc" Searls 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.

*American journalist, columnist, and blogger*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/doc-searls

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Journalist
- **Category:** Journalists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1947-07-29
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

David "Doc" Searls 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.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 40.7 / 100
- **Momentum:** 1.9 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 4.4 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 45.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 85.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/dsearls (@dsearls)
- **LINKEDIN**: https://www.linkedin.com/in/docsearls/ (@docsearls)
- **WEBSITE**: https://searls.com/

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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5287121)

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