As I write this, the launch of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage may still be a couple of months away, but Produsage.org is already up and running. This is a space to collect thoughts, comments, and research related to the growing phenomenon of user-led content creation across such a large range of intellectual domains - a phenomenon which I've attempted to define as produsage. For the moment, I'm necessarily still the main proponent of this concept, but I hope that, in time, many more voices will join in as we celebrate and critique developments towards a wider acceptance both of the term, and of the produsage model itself - so, welcome, and please consider making your own contributions to this site.
But let me start at the beginning: why 'produsage'?