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.

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