Links for the first week:

About blogs as a trend:

http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html

Following blogs via RSS:

http://gregverdino.typepad.com/greg_verdinos_blog/2007/04/rss_in_plain_en.html

Readers:

Please sign up for one of the following "readers" and work on going to some of your favorite content sites and adding them.

www.google.com/reader

www.bloglines.com

www.newsgator.com

Examples of feeds that can be copied into a reader:

A Google News search on Fordham

Link: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=fordham+university&btnG=Search+News

RSS feed: (To be cut and pasted into your reader) http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=fordham+university&ie=UTF-8&output=rss

An Indeed search for Marketing Internships (Indeed searches for every job on the web, including Monster, Careerbuilder, Craigslist, etc)

Link: http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=marketing+internships&l=new+york%2C+ny

RSS feed: http://rss.indeed.com/rss?q=marketing+internships&l=new+york%2C+ny&radius=25

Craiglist Apt search

Link: http://newyork.craigslist.org/search/rfs/brk?query=coop&minAsk=min&maxAsk=max

RSS Feed: http://newyork.craigslist.org/search/rfs/brk?query=coop&minAsk=min&maxAsk=max&format=rss

About blogging in general:

http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/2006/10/getting_into_th.html