The UMN Institute for New Media Studies and the Internet Studies Center are cosponsoring a showing of Chuck Olsen’s Blogumentary on February 3. Chuck’s project promises to be more personal than PBS’s Media Matters: Welcome to the Blogosphere:

We live in an age where everyone is a mediamaker. Blogs empower us to tell our story, spout and debate our politics, and share ourselves with the rest of the world - or at least the 5 people who read our blog. What compels us to blog? How does it affect us, each other, our work, the mediascape, the world? Do bloggers have anything in common? Does the blogosphere have a life of it’s own, like the emergent behavior of an ant colony excited by the discovery of food?

Chuck also wants to make this project the first open-source documentary by eventually putting all the footage up on the Blogumentary website for download. It'll be interesting to see what comes out of this end of the project, both logistically and creatively.
The screening will be at 5:30 p.m. in the St. Paul Student Center, and it will by followed by a panel discussion featuring Dan Gillmor, Chuck, Nora Paul, Laura Gurak, Shane Nackerud, who coordinates the UMN UThink Project, and yours truly. And there will be pizza! So it's a movie, free food, and some discussion. Doesn't get any better than that.