Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Dissident Blogger
Handbook
Reporters Without Borders offers for free download an excellent Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-dissidents. Its chapter titles are: 1) Bloggers, the new heralds of free expression. 2) What’s a blog? 3) The language of blogging. 4) Choosing the best tool. 5) How to set up and run a blog. 6) What ethics should bloggers have? 7) Getting your blog picked up by search-engines. 8) What really makes a blog shine? 9) Personal accounts from: 9a) Germany, 9b) Bahrain, 9c) USA , 9d) Hong Kong, 9e) Iran, 9f) Nepal. 10) How to blog anonymously. 11) Technical ways to get around censorship. 12) Ensuring your e-mail is truly private. 13) Internet-censor world championship. It is offered in two pdf format versions. One is full color and the other is a black and white printer friendly version. The latter is much easier to read on screen. They may be obtained by clicking this link: http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542.
