Reporters Without Borders has just released their very useful Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents.
The Citizen Lab contributed two chapters, one a general guide to the Civiblog, and a second chapter by Director of Technical Research Nart Villeneuve on Technical Ways to Get Around Censorship. Congratulations
Julien Pain and all of the people at RSF for what promises to be a timely and very useful contribution.
Among all of the press coverage of our recent Iran report, I thought I’d post this one from BBCPersian, which has an interview with me translated into Farsi. You can listen to the realaudio package here.
As an addendum, here is a nice BBC story by Clark Boyd, with a great interview with Nart Villeneuve, Director of Technical Research at the Citizen Lab. Additionally, I recently did an interview with the BBC5 program Up All Night. Here is a locally archived MP3 file for downloading and listening.
CNN has a news item that is making the rounds about China’s new policy of shutting down unregistered websites and blogs. The story mentions our ONI report on China’s filtering of the Internet. Nart’s blog has an extended analysis of the issue that includes some speculation on the so called “night crawler” that China is reportedly using to track unregistered websites and blogs that should be read as well.
I have also just stumbled across a news item on Tunisia that mentions the ONI’s research on this country and has a lengthy interview with Nart.
Our own Nart Villeneuve of the Citizen Lab has had his blog, Internet Censorship Explorer nominated for Freedom of Expression Blog Award by RSF. You can vote for him in the international category here. Well done Meta!