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Battelle revisits his own tech predictions for 2006

Xeni Jardin at 12:01 pm Thu, Dec 28, 2006

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Oh, anyone can prognosticate for the year ahead -- but few have the cojones to look back with a straight face on their own predictions from the year past. BB's business manager John Battelle does exactly that, each year, and here's a snip from his self-critique for 2006:
As you all know by now, each year I prognosticate, and each year I judge how I did. This year, well, I have to say, if the only thing I got right was that Time was going to put Web 2.0 on the cover ("You" was a proxy for that, trust me), I'd be happy. But overall, I think I did OK, though I was a bit early on many things. Here's the rundown.
Link to "2006 predictions: How'd I do?"

Image: Bart Nagel.

Related posts on Battelle'sSearchblog:
• 2006 Predictions
• 2005 Predictions
• 2005 How I Did
• 2004 Predictions
• 2004 How I Did

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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