This morning I added another section to the sidebar here, called Blog Alerts, from The Committee to Protect Bloggers. The CPB is a group that raises awareness about bloggers around the world facing state or other repression because of what they’ve written on thier blogs. You should really check them out. This BlogAlert system is something I set up for them and had on my old site. It’s a system by which the director of the CPB can write a post and put it in his category “Blog Alerts” and will thus appear automatically in the BlogAlert sections of any supporters’ web sites who have resyndicated the RSS feed for that category. You can grab the code snippet via the link at Add BlogAlerts to Your Site. This is an easy way to help spread the word quickly about bloggers in trouble. (I used Feed Digest to turn the RSS into javascript-to-HTML, very easy to do.)

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