Oh, if only this had been around for Mark Jen. SFist's nerd crush Annalee Newitz and Kurt Opsahl of the EFF just passed us a press release to highlight their on-line instructional pamphlet "How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else)." From the release (because it's late, we're lazy, and we need to go hit six art shows tonight): more ›

In other political-action news, we'd like to point up DCist's special inauguration coverage. They have a great photospread from the protests and festivities on the day of the inauguration, and also have a mashup-tastic piece on the security surrounding the event by David Enders. more ›

SFist found Bloggers Without Borders through the Tsunami Help blog. Later we ran into Dinah Sanders, AKA Metagrrrl, who explained the mission behind the site in detail, and we offered to help in any way we could. She arranged a get together with spokesman and techspert Jonas M. Luster over 'puters to chat. The conversation ranged from floating IP's that can be used to route around IP blacklists and protect a blogger's anonymity and location, through the sociology of C.W. Mills, the legendary 1985 documentary Shoah to Warren Ellis classic sci-fi graphic novel series Transmetropolitan. more ›