Conversations [Example One]

Under the category ‘Blog theory’ on Adrian Miles’ vlog 3.0 I read about a new anthology on blogging called Uses of Blogs, edited by Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs. Adrian has contributed a chapter to the forthcoming book and provides a link to a page on Snurblog, where details of the first chapter, contents pages, and contributors to the book are listed. Bruns and Jacobs argue:

it is the specific implementation of a blog that determines its value: its operational structures and response mechanisms, as well as the style of writing and method of recording ideas, commentary and institutionally relevant information, all influence the significance, reputation and success of a blog. There is a clear need to interrogate the range of blogging styles used by different disciplines and cultural groups and to develop a lexicon to articulate the most effective blogging mechanisms for different contexts (Bruns & Jacobs 3).

I’m researching the way academic blogs are linked and how blogs transcend conventional academic/audience relationship. How does this follow my conference conversation, mentioned in an earlier post? Axel Bruns is a lecturer in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Another contributor to Uses of Blogs is Jean Burgess – a doctoral candidate in Creative Industries Faculty at QUT. Jean was a speaker on the panel at the First Person digital storytelling conference and posted a comment (number two) to Adrian’s “prat’ blog entry.
Jill Walker (on my blogroll), is listed on the ‘community blogroll’ at Axel’s blog and is the person who provided the quote that started off my first blog post Beginnings!

Enough work for one post. Am not adhering to my ‘short bursts’ of writing too well. Will look where Jean leads me next post…