Doc Searls is a lifelong journalist, author, businessman, broadcaster, photographer, and a pioneering blogger. He was influential in getting the world talking about and implementing both Linux and open source. Doc's byline has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, and many other publications. He is co-author of the bestselling (and meme-making) Cluetrain Manifesto (Basic Books, 2000, 2010), and author of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012). He is co-founder and board member of Customer Commons, a nonprofit spun out of ProjectVRM which he started as a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, a fellow with the Center for Information Technology and Society at UC Santa Barbara, a visiting scholar with the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University, and a business veteran who co-founded and served as Creative Director for Hodskins Simone and Searls, which for many years was one of Silicon Valley’s leading technology advertising and marketing agencies.