Clint Boulton / eWeek:

Battelle Casts, but Andreessen Doesn’t Take the Bait  —  The Web entrepreneur won’t be goaded into trashing Microsoft, the firm that crushed his Netscape and is now targeting former industry darling Yahoo.  —  SAN FRANCISCO—Try as he might, John Battelle could not push Ning co-founder Marc Andreessen to take the bait.