Explore the Publishing Frontier – Lecture one

Welcome to Writers.com's ten-week new media workshop, taught by Amanda Castleman and Mike Keran. The class blog is open to the public, so we can demonstrate feeds and widgets properly (visitors are welcome to sign up here until 1/24/2010). Enrolled students can access private calendars and bulletin boards at the classroom Web site.

We're working on integrating the blog and classroom further. Mike custom-built the workshop space, which Writers.com may adopt for future classes. So we would love feedback to make it even better!

1. Media revolution: Draw that Mammoth
2. Introduction to Web 2.0
3. Blog stars are born
4. Ripples outside the pond
5. But these bloggers are just a buncha punks!
6. Citizen journalism
7. Why should you blog?
8. You're not alone – or screaming into the void
9. Pick a topic. Any topic, as long as it's toe-curling
10. Amanda's experience
11. Bloggers making it work
12. Successful bloggers who moved on
13. Why write without pay? Intro to freeconomics
14. Think geek
15. Ponder your genre
16. Naming and branding your blog
17. What’s in a name?
18. Yet more examples
19. Choose a blog host
20. Anatomy of a blog
21. Taglines
22. Get busy blogging!
23. But eeeek! How do I start?
24. The look and feel of your blog
25. How to navigate the site?
26. Say hello to the class