I’m off to Austin, Texas, for the 2008 International Online Journalism Symposium to present a paper on the BBC’s blogging strategy during the Saturday session.

There is a promising line-up and some 200 scholars, professional journalists and media executives have registered for the event. If you can’t make it, students will be live blogging the sessions using CoverLive, and I will also be writing about the sessions.

New this year is the video news games panel, which symposium chair, UT journalism professor Rosental Alves says will “explore the use of video game language and style in the construction of the digital journalism narrative.”