{"id":130,"date":"2006-04-14T15:38:49","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T22:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=130"},"modified":"2009-06-16T09:48:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T16:48:51","slug":"keep-your-dissidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Dissidents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reporters Without Borders has just released its Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-dissidents (pdf)<\/a>. It’s mostly a how-to manual for setting up a blog, along with some tips for anonymity. But this group really understands the need for promoting citizen media:<\/p>\n

“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.” <\/span><\/p>\n

To the extent that this document inspires new voices to come forth, it’s a welcome and useful project. Anyone who has contemplated their own blog, and who needs a little hand-holding, should download this. One of its chief assets is that it reveals how easy it is to get started blogging and shows just how to do it, quickly and for little or no cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reporters Without Borders has just released its Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-dissidents (pdf). It’s mostly a how-to manual for setting up a blog, along with some tips for anonymity. But this group really understands the need for promoting citizen media: “Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-internet-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-26","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38354,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38354","url_meta":{"origin":130,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Buries Bombshell on Trump’s Fixer Michael Cohen – Posts Fake Obama\/Iran Story Instead","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/2\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"On Monday morning there was one big story that was dominating the news. 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