Doc Searls (born on July 29, 1947) is a widely-read blogger and a columnist and senior editor for Linux Journal. Events 1014 - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of A columnist is a Journalist who writes material on a regular basis for publication in a series Linux Journal is a monthly Magazine published by Belltown Media Inc He is often credited for originating the quote "Markets are conversations", which is also the first thesis in The Cluetrain Manifesto, which he co-wrote in 1999 with David Weinberger, Christopher Locke and Rick Levine. The Cluetrain Manifesto is a set of 95 theses organized and put forward as a Manifesto, or call to action for all businesses operating within what is suggested to David Weinberger (born 1950 in New York) is an American technologist professional speaker and commentator probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Christopher Locke (born November 12, 1947) is a widely read Blogger, Author and the editor of the Entropy Gradient Reversals e-newsletter With David Weinberger he also co-wrote "World of Ends: What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else" (See NEA (internet). NEA, in the context of the internet and computing is an Acronym which stands for the maxim: N o one owns it Both Weinberger and Searls are also fellows with Harvard's Berkman Center, where Searls heads ProjectVRM, a development effort toward Vendor Relationship Management. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is a research center founded at Harvard Law School that focuses on the legal study of Cyberspace. VRM or Vendor Relationship Management is the reciprocal of CRM or Customer Relationship Management.