David "Doc" Searls Quotes

United States, Journalist
July 29, 1947

David "Doc" Searls is an American journalist, columnist, and a widely read blogger. He is a co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, author of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge, Editor-in-Chief of Linux Journal, a fellow at the Center for Information Technology & Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an alumnus fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Also known as Columnist, Blogger

The Net is the new underlying infrastructure for civilization itself.

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If you want to create new markets, or disrupt old ones, you create ubiquitous infrastructure.

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When all you've got is a hammer, bad service looks like a nail.

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- Like
- Service
- Hammer
Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees.

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By listening, marketing will re-learn how to talk.

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- Listening
- Marketing
- Talk
Looking back on the event, I find myself thinking there are three approaches to journalism represented here. One is the "cool" approach of traditional journalism, including network broadcasting in which NPR is no exception. One is the "hot" approach of talk radio, which has since expanded to TV sports networks and now Fox TV. The third is the engaged approach of weblogging.

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- Funny
- Sports
- Journalism