John Battelle

Perino had some nice things to say about the Huffington Post onstage and off in this interview. She told me the site is "rebuilding its reputation and dong a pretty good job."

John Battelle, a pioneer in publishing who was the first publisher of Wired and the Industry Standard, has been running an ad agency for blogs and other niche publishers called Federated Media.

If the new president goes straight to the people with his talking points, will the Obama administration even need the elite mainstream media to get his message out?