Alison Mackeen, editor of The Wild, Wild Wiki volume that Matt Barton and I are working on, forwarded this to me. Alison is starting a new imprint a U Michigan Press entitled digitalculturebooks. Below is a call for nominations to a new series they're launching in short order.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

digitalculturebooks is currently inviting nominations for our forthcoming collection, The Best of Technology Writing 2006.

The only such volume to be dedicated exclusively to technology writing, The Best of Technology 2006 will feature innovative, stylish, and accessible writing on a wide variety of technologies and topics, and in a wide variety of genres, including narrative features and profiles; Big Think and opinion pieces; business, investigative, and citizen journalism; art and design criticism; policy analyses; and personal essays.

In an effort to highlight new voices and under-covered issues, and to reach beyond the traditional publishing sources, The Best of Technology Writing will also be the first annual series of its kind to open the nominating process to the general public. Readers are asked to nominate articles they’ve admired at www.digitalculture.org by March 31, 2006. Nominations should be no longer than 5000 words, and should have been published between January and December, 2005.

The Best of Technology Writing 2006 will be published this Fall in print and electronic form by digitalculturebooks, a new imprint of the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library and the University of Michigan Press. It will include an Introduction by award-winning journalist Brendan Koerner. Koerner writes the weekly column “The Goods” for the New York Times, is a contributing editor at Wired, and writes regularly for Slate, and other publications. He is a former Senior Editor at US News and World Report and a fellow at the New America Foundation.