Working with senior management, I produce an annual leadership event for Procter & Gamble featuring innovators from around the world. It's a spin off from the Signal and Web 2 Summit events I produced for ten or so years prior.

I use BattelleMedia as a catch all for various activities, including small investments, consulting, writing, and development of new projects. Currently it holds my angel investments, new business ideas, speaking and consulting, advisement (I'm on several advisory boards).

I wrote a book for Penguin/Portfolio on the impact of search on business and culture. It became a best seller in many countries, was published in 27 languages, and remains in print. It won a few awards and I'm very proud of it. I'm now figuring out how to write another book about what's happened since.

Teaching and researching/thinking about role of data and data architecture in society.

NewCo is a media and events company focused on purpose-driven business. Now executed in partnership with Blue Impact. Our original product, the NewCo Festivals, are held in 20+ cities throughout the world. The NewCo Festival is a mashup of an artist open studio, a tech conference, and a music festival, all focused on innovation and the vibrant cities that nurture change. The NewCo Shift Forum is an annual executive event focused on senior leaders from policy, the Fortune 500, and the most impactful startups in the world - now executed as a product of Recount Media.

With others in the industry, founded and led a task force that ultimately rolled into the 4A's and IAB's Trust and Accountability Group. (http://www.iab.net/tag) Started with this post - http://battellemedia.com/archives/2013/01/bad-actors-in-the-adtech-ecosystem.php

Founder of a media startup in the conversational media space. Privately funded by founder, Omidyar, and the NYT, then Panorama and Oak, among others. Chair/CEO for 5 years, then Chair only for two, then CEO again. Sold to LIN Media in early 2014 (adtech biz spun out as sovrn Holdings).

Sat on IAB board during pivotal transition in the digital advertising ecosystem. Drove initiatives in areas of display formats, fraud, and more.

I was co-founder and Program Chair for this conference, which brought together the most interesting luminaries and entreprenuers in the Intenet space this October 5-7 in San Francisco. For more info, head to www.web2con.com. It's dormant now, but one never knows.

I was thrilled to work with the folks at Boing Boing (www.boingboing.net) in a "band manager" kind of role. It presaged my interest in the blog business generally, and things which may yet come in terms of projects/companies.

I ran the UC Berkeley Graduate School's business reporting curriculum in something of a part time role, which involved working with lecturers and staff to create classes for each year. I also taught in the new media and magazine programs, in particular I taught blogging as a publishing environment (a first of its kind at a major university) and how to develop new magazine titles.

I founded The Industry Standard in 1998 as a division of IDG. We grew to be the most successful magazine startup in history, with thriving online, conference, and international divisions. We then managed to blow up in 2001. If you want the whole story, you'll have to buy me a bourbon. Or two.

With half a dozen other nutjobs, I helped create Wired magazine, which begat HotWired, HotBot, Wired Books (HardWired), an ill-fated foray into television, various international gambits, and the like.