It looks like I received my copy of the book even before the author herself did [2], but with the excitement of the CCi conference last week, I haven't got around to acknowledging it yet: Jill Walker Rettberg [3]'s book Blogging is now out. Congratulations!

Jill, of course, is one of the world's best-known academic bloggers, and so I was very pleased to offer an endorsement for the back cover. Here's what I wrote:

[4]Jill Walker's Blogging is set to be a key text in its field. Unlike too many other books about blogging, this is no simplistic 'Blogs 101', but instead places blogging in a wider context from the declining supremacy of print culture to the emerging hot spots of social networking, including Facebook and YouTube. One of the world's leading scholars on blogging, and a veteran blogger herself, Walker is uniquely placed to document and examine the impact of blogging and allied forms of participatory media.

-- Axel Bruns, author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage [5]

As an aside: after our Uses of Blogs [6] (which Jill also contributed to), it's interesting how here's yet another book about blogs with a speaker/microphone-themed cover... Works for me, but perhaps we do have to start thinking about some new cover ideas.

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