"Across the globe, countries that discourage free speech have followed their citizens into the blogosphere. According to one count, in the last two years at least 30 bloggers (and there are no doubt more) have been interrogated, arrested, tortured and sentenced to long prison terms for the 'crime' of speaking critically about their governments. Regardless of your culture, your country, your politics or religion, we believe you deserve to speak your mind without falling afoul of state power." --from the introduction to BlogSafer.org, a wiki of Anonymous Blogging Guides.

Sponsored by the Spirit of America foundation, BlogSafer.org contains guides on how bloggers can avoid state persecution around the world.  Focusing on areas where persecution of bloggers has been the worst, the guides are available for Saudi Arabia, Iran, Malaysia, China and Zimbabwe.In

recognition of the fact that conditions, technologies and safest practices will inevitably change the guides are posted on a wiki.  A wiki is a web site that any authorized user (in this case anyone) can change the contents of, where all previous versions are easily viewable and subscribers can be notified any time a page in the site has changed. Successful wikis are ones where a group of committed users keep the information current and pay attention to notifications of changes having been made in order to make sure that those changes are good for the wiki.  

I provided technical consulting on the project and thought it would be of interest to readers here as an example of blogging, wikis and RSS all used together in a very interesting and important context.   

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