Talk:John Battelle

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Copy from Battelle, John

This comes from the page Battelle, John:

"John Battelle is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor, and author who has founded or co-founded businesses, magazines and websites. Currently on leave from Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, Battelle, 40, is also a founder and Executive Producer of the Web 2.0 conference 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.

Battelle recently wrote The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture (Penguin/Portfolio, ISBN 1591840880), a national bestseller, and is the monthly "Titans of Technology" columnist for Business 2.0 magazine. He also maintains Searchblog, a daily site covering the intersection of media, technology and the internet.

Battelle was named a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and a finalist in the "Entrepreneur of the Year" competition by Ernst & Young. He holds a bachelor's and a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley."

The article I have copied this from will probably be deleted soon. Perhaps this information can help editors of this article. Jpeob 12:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Negative info

Is this the same guy? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/26/federated_people_ready_microsoft_kerfuffle/

Stub-Class Article.

This Wikipedia Living Person Page may not meet notability guidelines. It is classified as a stub-class article. No discussion here on improving the page with citations. Deletion is imminent for this page. Corrections are necessary or else deletion may occur. Where are there any other sources that could improve this WLP? Anyone want to discuss where the articles might be to help improve this page? Bluestarfish88 (talk) 23:27, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Spam

Much of the content of this article seems to be self-promotion. I have removed numerous spam links, and tagged the article as advert, cleanup, etc. My prior changes were removed without discussion by a new editor who has made significant changes only to this article. I will caution the editor. Oldtaxguy (talk) 01:46, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]