Blogging
Blogging
From desert wind, a blog about Arab journalism, news reporting and freedom of the press, comes A Guide for Blogging in Arabic (عبري).
Get a Quick Fix on Blogging Everything you need to know about blogging before you start.
How to Keep a Successful Blog Twenty tested tips on how to write and present a professional blog. Also chec out:
- Robert Niles’ tips on writing for the web
- Danny Sullivan’s Post on Good Blog Writing Style Sullivan gives the advanced short-course in writing a compelling and accessible blog.
How to Create an Accessible Blog Tips for making your blog more accessible to people with disabilities.
Handbooks and Pamphlets
Reporters without Borders Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
How to blog a conference from one of the masters / Download the guide
Also check out: Ten Ideas: What to Post in a Conference Blog
Blogging Platforms, Search Engines, and Aggregators
Below are several blogging platforms; some of them have Arabic-language options. You can compare the features of many self-hosted platforms at WeblogMatrix.
Arabic-language blogging platforms:
Search for and track blogs on specific topics at:
Check out blog aggregators like:
- Blogher: The community for women who blog.
- Lebanon Aggregator: A round-up of Lebanese blogs representing a range of opinions.
- Egyptian Blogs Aggregator: The central hub for the Egyptian blogosphere
Blogging Safely
Get information about blogging anonymously, circumventing censorship, and foiling filters:
- Tor
- Open Net Initiative / ONI Blog
- Citizen Lab / Everybody’s Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship
- Anonymous Blogging with WordPress and Tor, a how-to (2006)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation’s How to Blog Safely (2005)
- Reporters without Borders Internet enemies campaign
- Reporter’s Guide to Covering the Beijing Olympics
- The Free Network Project
