Google Telling 400 People A Secret

Google is joining the ranks of the Knights Templar, the Masons, the Illuminati, and Skull and Bones, effectively setting up secret invitation-only meetings with 400 elite attendees, including major media figures, who are all sworn to secrecy about next month's Google Zeitgeist 05. Passwords will be used in lieu of secret handshakes. Just try to follow this news in the blogosphere via an Internet forum and a reader tipping him off to a mention in The Atlantic's bloggish CNet, which is least likely to make the invite list after being blacklisted from Google back in July, spoke to Sullivan, who remains skeptical about Google's attempt to keep this thing quiet. "I found it amusing to think that they are going to have people from The New York Times and other media outlets and suggest they can't talk about what 400 people are going to hear, much less having Scoble, who blogs about anything, not able to talk about it," Sullivan said in an interview Monday. "It's not a small, private event. Major executives from companies are speaking at it." Even M.C. Fallows is unconvinced, as told in Sullivan's blog: "Fallows admits that with guests representing a zillion blogs' and some of the biggest U.S. newspapers, it's unlikely that anything will remain a big secret. He doubts there will be articles with Mountain View datelines, but with so much attention focused on Google these days, he anticipates a fair amount of blogorrhea' on this subject." But one might imagine it could be similar to a recent Google meeting in New York withData Docket Inc., and their relationship with Google.