ActionAid Australia is looking to send Australian bloggers to developing countries to establish “blog outposts”, whereby the web savvy can pass on their knowledge and skills to locals interested in blogging and social media.
Using blogs, Twitter, Facebook and more, the outreach blogger will travel to one of ActionAid’s program countries to help locals harness the [...]

The recent naming of award winning blogger Night Jack, a British police detective, has thrown the spotlight onto the topic of anonymous blogging in the last few weeks.
And while there are numerous – valid – reasons why some bloggers wish to conceal their identity, the question arises has to how such writers can hope to [...]

Night Jack, a blog written by an anonymous British detective which I linked to in April after it won the Orwell special prize for blogs, has been taken off-line after the British High Court allowed the previously secret identity of its author to be published.
In a landmark decision, Mr Justice Eady refused to grant an [...]

The blog of an English police officer, who is known only as Night Jack, has been named winner of the Orwell special prize for blogs on account of its gritty yet engaging writing style:
The dispatches of the pseudonymous copper do not always make for cheerful reading. One of the earliest posts told the story of [...]

A list of CEOs who have blogs.

At the rate things are going we’ll also be attaching footers like this to private messages, direct tweets, and any other non-public online communication, rather than just emails.
By the way these footers, or “email signature hacks”, are by no means a new idea.

Merlin Mann on the ingredients that make for a good blog, which includes a dose of good old fashioned obsession:
People start real blogs because they think about something a lot. Maybe even five things. But, their brain so overflows with curiosity about a family of topics that they can’t stop reading and writing about it. [...]

It is polite, or at least a thoughtful gesture, to ask the permission of those concerned before publishing the content of private conversations on your blog.
I go to a lot of events and I have a lot of conversations and people tell me lots of things that would get them into trouble if I published [...]

In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop
Concerns have been raised about the health risks associated with… blogging, following the recent sudden deaths of two prominent bloggers in the US.
The pressure to be constantly ahead of the game, while writing for an information hungry global audience that never sleeps, can take [...]

Melbourne web developer Josh Sharp has recently launched techAU.
techAU aggregates both prominent and up-and-coming Australian bloggers who write about the new generation of the web and related technologies.

Comes with a crisp, easy on the eye, interface. Now the challenge is to compose descriptive and eye catching post titles…