First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
- Mohandas Gandhi
The question that I was faced with nearly a year ago as I battled with a serious case of jet lag: To blog or not to blog...
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber Dissidents
Reporters Without Borders has produced an excellent Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber Dissidents (pdf)
It has been reviewed by Rebecca MacKinnon, at Global Voices Online, who says it "is the first truly useful book I’ve seen aimed at the kinds of bloggers featured here at Global Voices every day: People who have views and information that they want to share with the world beyond their own national borders." Rebecca and her Global Voices colleague Ethan Zuckerman, who is also - full disclosure - President of Worldchanging's Board of Directors, are aggregating content from the growing numbers of bloggers worldwide who will welcome this book as a helpful guide and a support for bringing others into the "second superpower."
• Rebels at Large [Revisiting linking rights ;
Helping hand for bloggers who want to blab but stay out of jail ]
• · The media are actors, active elements, which transform the confusions of reality into a narrative. They are like the play within a play in Hamlet, put on to show the usurping King of Denmark the sin he had committed in killing Hamlet’s father. The corruption of the Canberra media ; Is the ultimate goal of media in a democracy to promote truth and accuracy or a diversity of views? The responsibility of the harlot
• · · Murdoch close to unveiling internet strategy Murdoch's No 1 priority: a net empire ; Like any other form of expression, blogging has not been insulated from infringements on intellectual property or what is commonly called “plagiarism.” Blog-O-Rama: It's basic manners to give credit to whom credit is due
• · · · Dream Date Love Blogs ; Blog Watch Could it put Media Dragon out of a job?
• · · · · For Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents Blog, Podcast Without Censorship ; Blogging Survey - On Bloggers
• · · · · · New York Times meets the Darknet ; Google: the tale that's wagging the blog? ; Yes, Google Does Alert You To New Blog Finds ; There is a power shift going on The power of the blog; Google Print and the Authors Guild