Blogger Book Tour

On May 27 I mentioned here that I'll be putting together a Blogger Book Tour for Darknet, to take the place of the usual practice of flying into towns to sign books for a half-dozen people (not that that isn't loads of fun ... and I'll be doing a handful of real-world bookstore appearances as well).

While Kevin Smokler, who created the Virtual Book Tour, likes to jam his authors' online appearances into a single frenetic week, I've decided to turn this Blogger Book Tour into a monthlong affair. That gives bloggers who just received the book time to actually read it.

What does the Blogger Book Tour entail? Simply an indication that you'll be discussing some of the issues detailed in Darknet on your blog. Could be a review, a Q&A, a podcast or videoblog, an excerpt from the book, a critique of the ideas spouted therein -- your call.

I'll also be guest-blogging a bit this month. I began yesterday at Copyfight (with a post about Fair use and grassroots media) and today on SmartMobs (in a post about 'Darknet' and the struggle for the soul of your machines).

While blog services like Feedster, Technorati, BlogPulse and PubSub help aggregate entries about the topic, it's still interesting to link directly to the bloggers who'll be participating in the conversation about Darknet.

It's an amazing mix of people: those who blog about intellectual property issues and emerging media like podcasting and videoblogging; members of the Media Bloggers Association (I'm on the board of directors) who care about issues of free expression in cyberspace; and members of Kevin's original Virtual Book Tour circle.

If you'd like to join the discussion, just email me and I'll link to your blog below. If you're listed below but you find you don't have time to take part, or you think Darknet isn't worth the tree sap and pixel dust, I'll remove your name. But there's no requirement to say anything positive: I won't remove a link because you pan the book.

OK, drumroll please. The members of the Blogger Book Tour ...

IP bloggers:

• Donna Wentworth and co. at Corante: Copyfight
• Denise Howell: Bag and Baggage
• Ernest Miller at Corante: The Importance of ...
• Siva Vaidhyanathan: Sivacracy.net
• Prof. Edward Felten: Freedom to Tinker
• Ernest Svenson: Ernie the Attorney

Media bloggers:

• Howard Rheingold: SmartMobs
• Susan Mernit: Susan Mernit's Blog
• Eric Rice: EricRice.com and give us this day his daily blog
• Susan Kitchens: 2020 Hindsight
• Ari Soglin: CitizenPaine | Citizen Journalism
• Mark Glaser: Online Journalism Review
• Josh Wolf: The Revolution Will Be Televised

Media Bloggers Association members:

• Steve Safran: Lost Remote (Steve's also got an interesting project, launched just yesterday: an online-only, midday news update on New England Cable News called "The Lunchbox" that consists of a two-minute whiparound; it's online only from 11:30am - 2pm weekdays).
• Tim Biro: The Media Drop
• Drew Olanoff: Mindsay
• Robin Burk: Random Probabilities and Winds of Change
• Doug Petch: life, liberty and the pursuit of relevance
• Jason Smith: Generation Why?
• Joe Gandelman: The Moderate Voice
• Bill Hobbs: HobbsOnline
• Don Singleton: Don Singleton blog
• Bob Morris: Politics in the Zeros
• Kit Jarrell: Euphoric Reality
• Rory O'Connor: Media is a Plural
• cehwiedel: Kicking Over My Traces
• Clyde Smith: Pro Hip Hop

Virtual Book Tour members:

• George Kelley: All About George
• Erica Olsen: Librarian Avengers
• Jason Toney: LAist
• Josh Greenberg: Epistemographer (he's also running a Doing Digital History Workshop this week at George Mason University)
• David Thomas: David Dylan Thomas blog
• Heather Lawver: The Heather Show
• Brad L. Graham: BradLands and The Daily Brad

There are also many other bloggers who have received copies of Darknet but who haven't formally agreed to participate in the Blogger Book Tour. (I've got to say this: Bloggers have been much more receptive to the book than members of the traditional media. Go figure.) Again, if you'd like to hop on the bus, let me know.

Cross-posted to New Media Musings