Conversation about the book continues to build as we recover from our Chicago party and gear up for the next bash in New York on Thursday:

• Our old digs—In These Times—excerpted the book’s “Beyond Pale, Male and Stale” chapter.
• Over at RH Reality Check, feminist blogger Amanda Marcotte interviewed Tracy about the importance of the netroots for the weekly “Reality Cast” podcast
• Leonard Doyle of UNFree Media considers the international implications of the media models we describe. “Beyond the Echo Chamber has the potential to change the US national conversation about progressive media and the future of journalism and it has lessons too for the world outside,” he writes. “Britain’s newspapers are so loud and opinionated that they [leave] little room for bloggers to stand out. But by sneering at participatory media, these outlets risk being left behind by emerging players.The same is true around the world where online media is still relatively in its infancy and progressive journalists, bloggers, producers, activists, readers, and policymakers are only now emerging.”
• On MediaShift, I suggest how our model of the four network layers might help media makers understand how to better evaluate the impact of their work.

We wrote the book to spark conversations about media strategy and evaluation, so it’s exciting to see people taking up our ideas and grappling with them. Stay tuned for more feedback!