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A free Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents is available at Reporters Without Borders at www.RSF.org
The handbook link is at http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542
Here's the description at that page:
Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they’re tremendous tools of freedom of expression.
Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure. Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.
Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help them, with handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. It also explains how to set up and make the most of a blog, to publicise it (getting it picked up efficiently by search-engines) and to establish its credibility through observing basic ethical and journalistic principles.
The 46-page handbook is a great combination of text and graphics and could be useful for anyone interested in blogging. The guide discusses blog tools, techniques, ethics and search engine indexing.
The guide describes fascinating personal accounts of bloggers from around the world on the way to describing how to blog anonymously, technical ways to get around censorship and ensuring your e-mail is truly private.
Regards,
Keith
The handbook link is at http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542
Here's the description at that page:
Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they’re tremendous tools of freedom of expression.
Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure. Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.
Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help them, with handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. It also explains how to set up and make the most of a blog, to publicise it (getting it picked up efficiently by search-engines) and to establish its credibility through observing basic ethical and journalistic principles.
The 46-page handbook is a great combination of text and graphics and could be useful for anyone interested in blogging. The guide discusses blog tools, techniques, ethics and search engine indexing.
The guide describes fascinating personal accounts of bloggers from around the world on the way to describing how to blog anonymously, technical ways to get around censorship and ensuring your e-mail is truly private.
Regards,
Keith
