Well, as the year gets underway, there's some more news about my various book projects as well. Today my publisher Peter Lang [1] informed me that Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production [2] has been nominated for the Communications Policy Research Award [3] at Fordham University [4]'s Donald McGannon Communication Research Center [5]. I know it may sound clichéd, but even to be nominated for an award whose previous winners include Lawrence Lessig and Robert W. McChesney feels like quite an honour... We'll see what happens - from the Center Website it looks like last year's winner was announced in May [6], so there may be a bit of a wait.

In other news, meanwhile, Uses of Blogs [7] has passed through the content-editorial stage with flying colours, and is now in proofreading. I suppose if we can fix any last typos by the end of February then this should mean the book will be out by mid-2006.