It's taken me a while to get back to blogging after the CCi conference [3] a couple of weeks ago - for a full report on the sessions I attended, see my coverage at snurb.info [4]. I'll try to post a little more regularly again now, although I'm still in that post-book slump that does tend to set in for a while after the completion of a major writing project. (I'm actually finding a good deal of my time taken up with projects related to my earlier book on citizen journalism [5] at the moment - there's a certain ebb and flow to these things.)
[6]For the moment, at any rate, it looks like I can let the produsage book itself do the talking for me. One of the highlights of the CCi conference was to see Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage [7] be officially launched by Henry Jenkins (alongside a raft of other publications by various QUT colleagues [8]), and I hear that it's had a good presence at the recent ICA conference [9] in Montréal as well, and will be featured at the Peter Lang stall at AEJMC [10] in Chicago, too. Its sales ranking on Amazon [11] has also been consistently strong since it first became available in February - many thanks to all of you who've bought a copy already. Please do get in touch with comments, criticism, and ideas for further research, too!
Beyond the citizen journalism and blog mapping projects I'm currently involved in [12], a good part of my research work will swing back towards produsage proper - especially also now that the Smart Services CRC [13] has officially launched (more on this soon). My CCi paper [14] foreshadows some of my future interests in this context - in particular, the question of how pro-am collaborations may operate under a produsage framework.
Links
[1] http://produsage.org/taxonomy/term/6
[2] http://produsage.org/taxonomy/term/7
[3] http://www.cci.edu.au/events/creating-value-between-commerce-and-commons
[4] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/94
[5] http://snurb.info/index.php?q=node/28
[6] http://www.flickr.com/photos/snurb/2610746956/
[7] http://produsage.org/book
[8] http://snurb.info/node/822
[9] http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/index.asp
[10] http://aejmc.org/_events/convention/08convention/index.php
[11] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0820488666?ie=UTF8&tag=snurbaxelbrun-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0820488666
[12] http://gatewatching.org/
[13] http://www.smartservicescrc.com.au/
[14] http://produsage.org/node/37
[15] http://technorati.com/tag/book
[16] http://technorati.com/tag/conferences
[17] http://technorati.com/tag/produsage
[18] http://del.icio.us/tag/book
[19] http://del.icio.us/tag/conferences
[20] http://del.icio.us/tag/produsage