BROG paper nominated for Edublog award

BROG's first publication, "Bridging the Gap: A Genre Analysis of Weblogs", has been nominated as the "best blogged [sic] paper" of 2004. The awards are being sponsored by "the incsub association: free-for-teachers hosting support and community in using weblogs, wikis and open source CMSs". There are nominations in 10 categories. The entire poll can be reached at: http://incsub.org/association/poll.

The paper reports the results of a content analysis of a random sample of weblogs and was the first to provide a descriptive snapshot of ordinary blogs. It was made available as a preprint on this blog in October 2003, and published in the Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) in January 2004. The HICSS publication, along with an expanded version entitled "Weblogs as a Bridging Genre" scheduled for publication in the journal Information, Technology & People, is available for download from the sidebar. The Into the Blogosphere collection (in which BROG's paper "Women and Children Last: The Discursive Construction of Weblogs" appears) was also nominated in the category of "best overall group blog", and the weblog of BROG member Lois Scheidt was nominated as "best research-based blog".

It's a good day for the BROG project.