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Handbook for Bloggers and cyber-dissidents
Its cool to be able to spend your time bloging about Flash, iPod, CSS trivia and other non-issues-for-anyone-except-a-geek, but sometimes you see something important from the tech world that really needs to be publicised…
Not only is the Handbook for Bloggers and cyber-dissidents a good read for experienced bloggers (it lists personal accounts of blogging from places such as Bahrain, Iran and Nepal), but it also contains good 'how to set up a blog' guidelines for everyone else.
Oh, and as well as being better than most beginner blogging books, and containing more insight about the true political role of blogging than 100% of the tech/design blogs out there (including of course this blog), it is also free.
Get it, read it, tell people.
Posted by motiongraphics on September 26, 2005 12:38 PM
http://thewall.civiblog.org/rsf/
I have just completed and released an all-in-one html version of Reporters Without Borders Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents, browseable at the above location. I tried to keep the spirit and flavor of RSF's pdf version as much as possible, while adding additional sources and art.
It is about 8mb, so will take a couple of minutes over dialup to load, but should be just great over broadband connections.
The release notes and download page for a local copy is here:
http://thewall.civiblog.org/rsf/ReleaseNotes_HBCD_110205.html
In addition to the Handbook, there are a couple of other files there for download as well.
http://thewall.civiblog.org/cdcp.zip tells the story of how the story of China's blocking of all Typepad-hosted weblogs in March 2004 reach the world press after spreading throughout the Blogosphere; and another file includes a collection of spinning orb and throbbing herald gif animations created for this html version, and released under the GPL.
Only the Civiblog site is completely set up so far, but downloading should be possible from http://rsfhandbook.tripod.com/ within a few days.
I actively solicit Your feedback on ways to improve this document, and welcome any and all comments, criticisms, corrections, rants, etc.
I hope you enjoy it.
Cheers,
- Dave Manchester
dredeyedick at gmail
Posted on November 17, 2005 01:19 AM