Reference Material

News:

• Real-time Global Terrorism Incident Map
  • Additional information about the map
• News Feed Widgets

Networking on the Web:

• Twitter 101
• Why Bloggers Need to Ping
• Blog Troubleshooting: “Uh oh, my blog won’t display!”
• What’s an RSS Feed?

Reporting Suspicious Activity:

• DHS “Contact Us” web page
  • Citizen Line Operator Number: 202-282-8000
  • Citizen Comment Line 202-282-8495
  • Mailing Address: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    Washington, D.C. 20528
• DHS “Report Incidents” web page
  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): Report Suspicious Activity 866-347-2423
• FBI “Tips and Public Leads” web page
• FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center

Detecting and Reporting Wikipedia Spin Jobs:

• Virgil Griffith’s Wikipedia Scanner
• About Wikipedia Scanner and how it works:
  See Who’s Editing Wikipedia – Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
• Submit the evidence to WikiWatch at Wired.com:
  Submit a Wikipedia Spin Job
• Government involvement in Wikipedia spin jobs: Biggest Internet Fraud: Wikipedia

Contacting Google Blogger.com:

• Reporting an abusive blogger to Google Blogger.com:
  • Look at the top of the offender’s blog for the words Flag this blog. Click on the link to flag the blog as offensive.
  • Use the Google Blogger Reporting Form to report the offender to Blogger.
• Contacting Blogger Support directly:
  • Google makes it especially difficult to contact anyone at Blogger.com. In the past, they could be emailed at support@blogger.com.
  • How to Contact Blogger Support is a website with rolling updates on contacting the elusive Blogger.com.
  • If you suspect that your Blogger blog has been wrongly deleted as a “splog” (spam blog) or due to a violation of Blogger’s TOS, please click this link and try following these instructions:
    Blogger Tips and Tricks: Blog Deleted as Splog/TOS. (See comments on this GoV thread.)
    Also, please click HERE and email me directly.
• Dealing with ordinary Blogger glitches:
  • Advice from Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna:
    

    For anyone who has problems: try closing your browser, deleting all cookies that end in “@blogger.com”, and then start all over again. That sometimes clears up problems with Blogger.

Contacting Google YouTube:

• To send email to YouTube support:
  • Click here for the YouTube contact form.

Resisting Blog Censorship:

• Stop Blog Censorship – Resource Page