Friends/ A Most Significant Friday PM Book Discovery: _Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage _ We the users turned creators and distributors of content are TIME's Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge's advertising agency of the year. We form a new Generation C. We have MySpace, YouTube, and OurMedia; we run social software, and drive the development of Web 2.0. But beyond the hype, what's really going on? In this groundbreaking exploration of our developing participatory online culture, Axel Bruns establishes the core principles which drive the rise of collaborative content creation in environments from open source through blogs and the Wikipedia to Second Life. He shows that what's emerging here is no longer just a new form of content production, but a new process for the continuous creation and extension of knowledge and art by collaborative communities: produsage. The implications of the gradual shift from production to produsage are profound, and will affect the very core of our culture, economy, society, and democracy. **Brief Table of Contents** Introduction The Key Characteristics of Produsage Open Source Software Development: Probabilistic Eyeballs News Blogs and Citizen Journalism: Perpetual Collaboration in Evaluating the News Wikipedia: Representations of Knowledge Wikipedia and Beyond: The Palimpsest of Human Knowledge Folksonomies: Produsage and/of Knowledge Structures Folks and Experts: Beyond the Pro/Am Divide The Art of Produsage: Distributed Creativity Media and Creative Industries: New Opportunities or Casual Collapse? The Produsage Game: Harboring the Hive of Produsers Social Produsage: Questions of Reputation and Trust Educating Produsers, Produsing Education: Produsage and the Academy Produsing Democracy Conclusion: Production, Produsage, and the Future of Humanity Bibliography >>Links to a Full Description and Detailed Table of Contents and Introduction Available At<< [ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2008/05/blogs-wikipedia-second-life-and-beyond.html ] OR [ http://tinyurl.com/49b5vc ] Enjoy! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 [log in to unmask] There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]