Introducing Linux Journal Team Member: Doc Searls


Linux Journal Senior Editor Doc Searls is a veteran writer, speaker and computer industry analyst. He joined Linux Journal early in 1999 after serving as president of The Searls Group, a marketing consultancy that began as part of Hodskins Simone & Searls. Doc co-founded HS&S in 1978 and helped build it into one of the top technology advertising and public relations agencies in Silicon Valley. HS&S was acquired in 1998 by Publicis Technology.

Searls has been a journalist since high school, both as an editor and as a freelance writer. His byline has appeared in OMNI, PC Magazine, Upside, The Globe & Mail, and (of course) Linux Journal, where he serves as Senior Editor. On the Web, Doc is best known as a co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and for his own Web journal, Reality 2.0.

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December 2008, #176

The Oxford English Dictionary says the word "gadget" is a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember. Like that book-reader thingy from Amazon...what's it called? Spindle, Gindle...Kindle, that's it. Check it out in this month's gadget issue.

Other gadgets covered include the Nokia tablets, the BlackBerry, the Neo FreeRunner, the Dash Express, the Roku Netflix Player, the Kangaroo TV, The TomTom GO 930 and the MooBella Ice Cream System. On the larger hardware front, read the reviews of the Acer Aspire One and the YDL PowerStation. On the software front, check out the articles and columns on memcached, Samba security, Mutt, desktop gadgets, bash and Puppet. To wrap it all up, read Doc's thoughts on Google and the browser platform.

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