The "Handbook for Blogger and Cyber-Dissidents" is a book which should be read by any blogger preoccupied with remaining anonymous.

The paper was partially financed by the French government and it includes technical advice for bloggers on how to conceal their true identity with pseudonyms or programs that hide their IP addresses.

The advices cover a wide range of cases when a blogger should hide his identity, and the book also offers details on how can a blog be sent as a crypted e-mail.

In European countries and in the United States, a blog is regarded as a past time activity, but in countries like China, Iran, Nepal, a blog can even replace a social protest. Many times, bloggers in these countries were censored or even arrested by authorities.

The book has 87 pages and is available for download on the Reporters Without Borders official site in Chinese, Arabic languages, English and French.

Currently, the exact dimension of the blogosphere cannot be assessed, but the phenomenon has to be of importance, otherwise Google wouldn't have launched Google Blog Search.

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