Whistle Blower's StopOne of the safest ways to voice the truth is to do so anonymously. With blogs, anonymity isn't necessarily easier or more foolproof, but it does allow for more people to read your thoughts before you have to pull the news and hit the trail. This section helps you decide whether anonymity is the best choice for your blog. Blog Anonymously http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Anonymity/blog-anonymously.php The EFF's page on anonymous blogging provides a number of suggestions for keeping your online exposés anonymous. Tor for Bloggers http://tor.eff.org/index.html This software provides anonymity for bloggers by routing submissions through multiple onion routers. This is not a blog but an actual software site. The origin of this free software (Office of U.S. Naval Research), however, should give free-speech advocates pause.... Invisiblog http://invisiblog.com/ For blogs that demand the ultimate in privacy, take advantage of Invisiblog's mixmaster technology every time you post. This is an anonymous, encrypted remailer network that randomly moves your blog posts through the Net. Tracing anything back to you is difficult, but as you can imagine, not impossible. Anonymizer http://www.anonymizer.com/ A website you surf through to conceal your computer's IP address and/or location. For a decent chance at privacy, you should post through Anonymizer to the Invisiblog network...from an Internet café...in Salina. Avoid Getting GoogledFor bloggers who don't really want to draw attention to their sites, there's the option of preventing major search engines such as Google and Yahoo! from listing your page in search results. You can create a special file in your blog that tells these search services to ignore your domain. The file, called a robots text file or robots.txt, can be obtained free from Web Tool Centralhttp://www.webtoolcentral.com/ However, this method isn't always successful, and you can try alternative tricks to avoid search engine scanning. We cover some of these tricks in Part III, "Building Your Own Blog." How Not To Get Fired Because of Your BlogSurely you've read about the flight attendant who lost her job for posting not-so-suggestive photos of herself on airplanesin uniform of course. If not, then you must not know that blogs are deadly to a job if mishandled. This section lists a few blogs of the dispossessed and also some advice on how to prevent the same thing from happening to you. Queen of the Sky http://queenofsky.journalspace.com/ Can getting fired make you famous? Yes, if you're a blonde, twentysomething, flight attendant here in the United States. Read the blog that made the Queen of the Sky fall from grace but also garner a book deal. Blogger.com http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=661&topic=-1 Let Blogger (the biggest web log hosting site) help you help yourself, namely, CYA when talking about work. Biased BBC http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/ Are you hypnotized by the BBC's swirling logos? Does its news scream "taste" while comforting you in warm fuzzies? Even if you believe firmly in the public news ideal (the BBC, duh), this blogger would hope you'd see the Beeb's other side. Los AlamosThe Real Story http://lanl-the-real-story.blogspot.com/ Employees of Los Alamos laboratory who were censored by their own newspaper decided to start a blog and communicate what was happening at the labs.
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