Blogging and Social Media Class every Tuesday @ 3

I will be leading a class about blogging and social media. If you are a student in the class, then this blog entry is especially for you - these links will help to get you oriented. The class is about reading and writing, and the group process of reviewing and refining. We will challenge each other to become more articulate and informed writers. Another facet of the class is learning about the wild world of the blogosphere, not only about blogs and websites that are already well-established, but also students are encouraged to engage in innovative thinking about the blog or killer ap of the future.

Ok let's have fun exploring blogs. First it's going to be important to know about Facebook and Twitter, as these can be used as platforms for sharing with other people the nuggets of greatness that you discover while reading blogs. Then we're each going to be assigned a few blogs from Technorati's Top 100 blogs list to familiarize ourselves with.
For now just browse the links, and have a good time exploring what's out there.
The Huffington Post
TechCrunch
Mashable!
Gizmodo
Engadget
The Daily Beast
TMZ
Boing Boing
Think Progress
Hot Air
Mediaite
CNN Political Ticker
Jezebel
ReadWriteWeb
Lifehacker
WikiLeaks
Deadline.com
The Caucus
RedState
Kotaku
The Daily Dish
DeadSpin
Politics Daily
Popeater
ArtsBeat
The Official Google Blog
Joystig
Vulture
Michelle Malkin
TPM Muckracker
Slash Gear
Pajamas Media
TownHall
Matthew Yglesias
NewsBusters.org
BuzzFeed
Wall Street Journal Washington Wire
CrunchGear
Just Jared
American Thinker
Big Government
The Awl
EurekAlert!
Ben Smith
Daily Intel
Grist
The Onion
The unofficial Apple weblog
Power Line
L.A. Now
Laughing Squid
Political Punch
Apple Insider
Ubergizmo
Boy Genius Report
GigaOM
Ezra Klein
naked capitalism
Boomtown (All Things Digital)
zero hedge
Daily Kos
Paul Krugman
NeatORama