Named a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, John Batelle is a journalist and an entrepreneur with a string of successful dot com ventures. He is well known for his ability to project the economic climate in a world where technology, business, communication, and media are merging together, and even wrote about the topic in 2005 with his bestselling book The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules and Transformed Our Culture. Batelle has many successful sites on the internet at the moment, one at TheStandard.com which provides predictions of internet commerce, and another at Batellemedia.com (also known as SearchBlog) which serves as a blog for his thoughts on various topics (mostly technology and business) that influence the future of our world. He is the CEO and founder of Federated Media Publishing, which features and networks authors and websites through their website at federatedmedia.net. He is also CEO of Standard Media International, and co-founded the popular magazine Wired. He writes monthly as a technology columnist for Business 2.0 magazine. Batelle carries a bachelor's degree in Anthropology from UC Berkeley as well as a master's in Journalism. He has spoken and taught at many venues, and serves as Executive Producer of the Web 2.0 conference, as well as managing the site BoingBoing.net. He was a finalist for the "Entrepreneur of the Year" competition held by Ernst & Young and was named one of the "Most Important People on the Web" by PCWorld. |
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