Next week's readings:

• Doonesbury's War, By Gene Weingarten, Oct. 22, 2006. Washington Post Magazine.
• Q&A with Gene Weingarten.
• Librarians are the New Napoleons, By Roger Warner, Oct. 16, 2006. CMS Wire.
• Lawsuit Award a Warning to Blogs, By Kara Rowland, Oct. 12, 2006, The Washington Times.

Next week's readings:

10 Journalism Tips For Bloggers, Podcasters & Other E-Writers

Oprah Winfrey, Amanda Congdon and the New Golden Age of the Cross-Country Road Trip

Battle brewing over Internet access for blind Web surfers

Ask.com Takes Search Engine To Phones

Business embraces Web 2.0

This week's classwork:

Editing your sites:

• Check templates. We are using white backgrounds with black type -- they are easy to read and don't distract from your content.

• Upload profiles and profile photographs

• Insert a list of links to websites related to your blog. These will be inserted on the right hand side of your template. Go to this Blogger page for directions on how to do this.
  

Insert your first posting, using the Blogger dashboard. We will review formatting.

Register your blog with Sitemeter service, available at http://www.sitemeter.com/, so you can start measuring your traffic.

Ping your blog. I like the Pingoat service at http://www.pingoat.com/
Also, register with FeedBlitz, at http://www.feedblitz.com/ to allow for e-mail notification when you add new posts.

And, if you would like to get some business cards made, vistaprint.com will print 250 cards for just the price of shipping.

Next week's reading assignments:

• Proceedings of the 2006 meeting of the Online News Association

• YouTube Community Worried by Google Deal. By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press, Oct. 11, 2006

• Yahoo Hurting While Google Healthier Than Ever. By Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Watch. Oct. 11, 2006

• Lord of the Lies: Aleksey Vayner Outdoes Himself. IvyGate

• MSNBC Names Web Execs.

• L.A. Times' defining moment. David Olive, The Toronto Star, Oct. 10, 2006

• Big Media vs. Blogs: Longing for the Good Ol' Days

Next week's readings:

• Courts are asked to crack down on bloggers, websites Laura Parker, USA TODAY

• Counting the Errors of Modern Journalism Brian Doherty, Cato Institute
  

• The New Precision Journalism, Philip Meyer

• Finding Data on the Internet, Robert Niles website