John Battelle's gag order

dtweney — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:15:07 EST

The World Economic Forum is an elite, invitation-only event in Davos, Switzerland, where the most powerful people in the universe gather to talk about how they're going to carve up the world in the coming year. This year, the invitees included A-list bloggers Arianna Huffington and John Battelle So where's all the Davos coverage? Locked up in the bloggers' feverish brains, since most events at Davos are off the record. Battelle is left stammering: "You'll have to trust me that the insights, conversations, and information I gathered will certainly inform the musings I post here. I just can't be specific to the who, what, and where." Well, that leaves when, why, and how, at least. Could this be a weird kind of reverse-psychology buzz-generating trick by the Davos organizers?

Who Watches the Battelle Watchers?

rabruzzo — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:50:57 EDT

Steve Baldwin of DisObey chronicles ghost sites, or as I like to call it abandonweb, told Valleywag that John Battelle fansite, Battelle Watch, hasn't been updated since late September 2006. The lack of recent content can not be due to any lack of newsworthy shenanigans (that's right, shenanigans, yes I went there) on the part of everyone's favorite pseudo-ad mogul, we hope Battelle Watch's absence is only temporary.

The author of Batelle Watch, Mr Bubble states in the About Me:

Remember that gazillion-dollar boondoggle tech magazine called the Industry Standard? Remember how the Internet Bubble popped like a poison zit? Well, the bad times are back again and so is John Battelle.

We miss you, we need you. Please come back to us, Mr. Bubble.

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John Battelle's gag order

Who Watches the Battelle Watchers?