For our next class, Sept. 9

Create a new blog in Blogger. Create Twitter,  Facebook and Google+ accounts and connect to relevant contributors (try searching for "Entrepreneurial Journalism" on Google -- you will come up with plenty of people you should be following. There are more listed in various places on this blog.) Reading: Chapters 1 through 4, “Newsonomics” and Chapters 1-3, “Entrepreneurial Journalism.” Write 4 blogs each week, 150-250 words. Blogging ideas: What is journalism right now, today, and how did we get here? What does news look like on the Internet? What is your news diet? Interview five people about their news diets. What did you find? Explore niemanworld.org and talk about what you learn. Definitely read the Justin Ellis piece on journalism schools and blog about that. Find a Patch.com editor and interview that person.Think of 10 original ideas to save journalism and blog about those in one blog. Cultivate your new identity as a thinker, an innovator, a doer of great things. I may throw some other stuff your way, so pay attention to his blog.