Q&A: Battelle talks blog roll-ups, Google, and Federated Media's future

By federating together with a lot of other like sites, they get better access to terms and deals from large companies like Google or Microsoft.
The core of that is that we work with a select group of really high-quality sites that are independent; and it's in our interest to help them stay that way. Particularly last year, everyone was running around talking about how cool the idea of a roll-up was: "We'll buy a bunch of these sites and stick them ... Full Story »

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by Juliet Sallette - Mar. 23, 2008

great article and interview. The author engaged his subject and allowed him to discuss important issues facing the online community. John Battelle is a visionary and a true inspiration. The writer's questions allowed the subject to discuss openly his views on content which is a hot issue in online marketing. Although, the article led me to ask additional questions, this was a great entre' into the mind of a legendary genius. Great journalism

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