As part of the Committee to Protect Bloggers, I teamed up with Wordia.com to promote Blogging Nation Week, during which time we gathered different Web professionals to define words applying to online expression. The week was in part a tribute to the successful relaunch of the Committee to Protect Bloggers as well as highlight the ongoing challenges people face both by governments and business when trying to push online expression forward.

I took it offline for a crash redesign during the course of about a week in August and relaunched it with an expanded team and slightly augmented mission. As well as being an information site about bloggers being arrested and intimidated, we’re also focusing on legal issues, technology and tutorials aimed at keeping bloggers from behind bars and worse and partnering with more organisations working on digital rights.

The Committee has added more activists and reporters talking about issues in Iran, Vietnam and elsewhere. and we’re collaborating more with groups such as Global Voices. In the works now is also a collaborative project with developers to build a crowd-sourced platform for people to submit news on internet repression throughout the world.

Within a month of relaunch, the committee was featured in an episode of The Listening Post on Al Jazeera’s English news station and a Voice of America Vietnamese-language broadcast.