Outsell's NY BrainGain

Premium Content & Search - Growing Revenue in 2006 was the title of Outsell's BrainGain program at the New York Athletic Club yesterday.  The best was first - John Battelle, author of The Search and Searchblog as well as the leader of Federated Media Publishing gave an excellent keynote that in many ways recapped his book.  While the rest of the sessions were good, much of the material didn't seem fresh.   Or perhaps it was too basic if you're a regular at Go! or Buying & Selling eContent.  As usual there was a lot of talk about Google. Linda Rigano of Thomas Industrial Network did a nice solo presentation and the panel on The Aggregators and The Search Engines at the end of the day had three good speakers - Kathy Sexton of HighBeam, Bruce Smith of Answers.com (in place of Jeff Cutler) and Pam Springer from ECNext.