I gave my two presentations to the conference yesterday. The first was on negotiations of authority in the emerging church blogosphere in a panel of Web 2.0 Rhetoric and Realities. The second was on religious podcasting in a panel on new conversations in religion online. Heidi Campbell visited my presentation in the first one, and I noticed that while I was showing the data she had quite an excited look on her face. Then before my second presentation she gave a paper on authority and identity within Christian and Jewish blogs, and I saw that we had much the same conclusions on our separate research.

So we talked this morning and decided to pull our stuff together to make a joint paper for a journal. Great, I’ve done what I’ve come here to do.

I also found out about a research group at the University of Oslo called Intermedia, which is an interdisciplinary team on researching uses of new media in creating communities and democracies. One of the religion online panel was eager for me to check it out some more so I met up with the director of Intermedia at the conference and will look into what may be on offer for an Aussie with a PhD in online religion. Worth a look at least.