Your blogging assignment is a critical part of your work this semester. In your blog, you're going to assume the role of an expert, or at least the role of a curious and interested person, on one subject. You'll be posting to your blog at least three times per week during the semester, so you'll finish the semester with at least 45 posts in your blog.
The first thing you'll need to do is set up a blog. You can do that here at blogger.com. This is a good free space for blogs, with nice feeds and decent editing capabilities (I've been doing this here for a few years). Unless you have your own site that can handle the feed from blogger, publish your blog here, too. Spend some time under the covers here, checking out what you can and can't do with the editing tools and the templates here. There are a lot of preset options, but the most exciting ones are where you get into the code yourself and change things around.
Then you'll have to pick a topic that you're interested in. However, you can't choose either a musician or an actor (or movie, or album), because those people (and things) already have enough sites about them, and you won't be doing anything except collating fan comments and the like. Instead, think of your blog as a one-stop shop for someone interested in your topic. For example, if I were to do a blog on the poetry of Seamus Heaney, I would check out what's on the web, make some decisions about whether or not I wanted to link to it, and then offer reasons why each link is worth a visitor's time. I might start with a biography of the man, then link to some of his poetry online, then look at some reviews, assessments, or articles on him.
With every entry, every link, you should offer a justification for why its there. Being first in the queue at Google doesn't cut it as a reason for why it's on your blog. You should assess the site you're linking to, and present an argument for its presence. Of course, there may be times when you don't want to include a link, and just offer your opinion, or something taken from somewhere other than the web on your blog. This is fine, but these posts shouldn't predominate in your blog.
If you have any questions, let me know.
