Self-publishing
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| + | [[litblog]]s of note include [[The Existence Machine]], [[This Space]], [[The Reading Experience]], [[Tales from the Reading Room]], [[Bookride]], [[Wuthering Expectations]]. | ||
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| A '''blog''' (a [[portmanteau]] of '''web log''') is a website where entries are written in [[chronological order]] and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning ''to maintain or add content to a blog.'' | A '''blog''' (a [[portmanteau]] of '''web log''') is a website where entries are written in [[chronological order]] and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning ''to maintain or add content to a blog.'' | ||
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| - | Blogging can sometimes have unforeseen consequences in politically sensitive areas. In some countries, [[Internet police]] or [[secret police]] may monitor blogs and arrest blog authors of commentators. Blogs can be much harder to control than broadcast or print media, because a person can create a blog whose authorship is hard to trace, by using anonymity technology such as [[Tor (anonymity network)|Tor]]. As a result, [[totalitarianism|totalitarian]] and [[authoritarianism|authoritarian]] regimes often seek to suppress blogs and/or to punish those who maintain them. | + | ==See also== |
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| - | In Singapore, two ethnic Chinese individuals were [[imprisoned]] under the country's [[Sedition Act (Singapore)|anti-sedition law]] for posting [[Islamophobia|anti-Muslim]] remarks in their blogs. Egyptian blogger [[Kareem Amer]] was charged with insulting the Egyptian president [[Hosni Mubarak]] and an [[Islam]]ic [[Al-Azhar University|institution]] through his blog. It is the first time in the history of Egypt that a blogger was prosecuted. After a brief trial session that took place in [[Alexandria]], the blogger was found guilty and sentenced to prison terms of three years for insulting [[Islam]] and inciting sedition, and one year for insulting Mubarak. Egyptian blogger Abdel Monem Mahmoud was arrested in April 2007 for anti-government writings in his blog. Monem is a member of the then banned [[Muslim Brotherhood]]. After the [[2011 Egyptian revolution]], the Egyptian blogger [[Maikel Nabil Sanad]] was charged with insulting the military for an article he wrote on his personal blog and sentenced to 3 years. | + | {{GFDL}} |
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| - | After expressing opinions in his personal blog about the state of the Sudanese armed forces, [[Jan Pronk]], United Nations Special Representative for the [[Sudan]], was given three days notice to leave Sudan. The Sudanese army had demanded his deportation. In [[Myanmar]], Nay Phone Latt, a blogger, was sentenced to 20 years in jail for posting a cartoon critical of head of state [[Than Shwe]]. | + | |
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A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
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