Progress on Uses of Blogs

A good day yesterday: not only did I receive my hardcopies of the Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production book, but the first chapters for the next book, Uses of Blogs, which Jo Jacobs and I are currently editing, have also come in (with a surprisingly large number of contributors requestion a week's extension, though). In fact, both Jo and I also had some further good news - I can't quite disclose mine just yet, but Jo will become the new Collaboration Manager for ACID! Congratulations, Jo, and great to have you on board.

As we're starting to work through the chapters so far, we've also identified a number of additional topics which would be worth covering, so we're now in the process of contacting some further contributors. We've already brought on board Mark Bahnisch for a chapter on blogs and activism, and further additional chapters are likely to deal with blogging technology, fictional blogs, blogging communities, corporate 'dark blogs', and the overall blogosphere, and I'll announce any news about these as it comes to hand. In the meantime, if you'd like to suggest anyone who should absolutely write the chapter on any of these topics, please post a comment to this entry...