Wired has the scoop on a new publication put out by Reporters Without Borders: Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents (available here as a pdf download or HTML pages).

The publication “is partly financed by the French Foreign Ministry and includes technical advice on how to remain anonymous online.”

“Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure,” Julien Pain, head of the watchdog’s Internet Freedom desk, writes in the introduction.

In a bid to inspire budding web diarists around the world, the 87-page booklet gives advice on setting up and running blogs, and on using pseudonyms and anonymous proxies, which can be used to replace easily traceable home computer addresses.

“With a bit of common sense, perseverance and especially by picking the right tools, any blogger should be able to overcome censorship,” Pain writes.

This project seems aimed at a lot of countries we typically consider having “oppressive regimes” but it may be of interest to people who fear the same type of censorship and control of the internet happening here at home.