John Battelle
John Battelle is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor, and author. Currently founder and chairman of Federated Media Publishing, he is also a founder and executive producer of conferences in the media, technology, communications, and entertainment industries and “band manager” with BoingBoing.net. Previously, Battelle was founder, chairman, and CEO of Standard Media International (SMI), publisher of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com. Prior to founding The Standard, Battelle was a co-founding editor of Wired magazine and Wired Ventures. He is the author of The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture” (Portfolio, 2005).
Blog Posts
Goodbye, GigaOM, and Thanks
--Today we're announcing that FM and GigaOM are parting ways. We wish Om, Paul and the rest of the Giga Omni Media team the best of luck as they begi...
Words of wisdom from 'an old print guy'
--I've recently been following John A. Byrne, the executive editor of BusinessWeek, via his Twitter feed. I then noticed a blog post in which he desc...
ClickZ on Intel, Offworld and WePC
--ClickZ, among others, covered the recent launch of Intel-sponsored Offworld with this post. Intel has indeed been an incredible marketing partner w...
AdAge, P&G and marketing on social nets
--P&G's Digital Guru Not Sure Marketers Belong on Facebook - that's the headline published yesterday for an AdAge article in which Ted McConnell, gen...
Boing Boing's new gaming site: Offworld
--Check out Offworld, the new site from the Boing Boing crew. Gaming will now get the 'directory of wonderful things' treatment. Awesome. Thanks to I...
What is FM? Here's the 4 minute version...
--Robin Good of MasterNewMedia recently joined the FM family. Robin requested that John introduce FM to his community with a brief on-camera explanat...
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