Lina Ben Mhenni is a professor at the University of Tunis and an active blogger in French, English and Arabic since 2007. Despite the risks, she blogged from Tunisia and tried to inform people about the repression and censorship experienced under the Ben Ali regime. During the events of December 2010 and January 2011, she went as far as travelling to places like Sidi Bouzid and Kasrine to document the repression and killings. She now keeps a careful watch on political developments in the new Tunisia.

Vahid Nikgoo is a cartoonist. The popularity of his blog, Haft, which means "seven," has caused problems for him with his service provider since every time he posted a new biting and satirical caricature, the huge number of people who would visit the site crashed the server. Thankfully, he's found a more stable server. A series of “Photos of Iranians in Facebook” shows an overview of his art.

This community aims to catch and punish the state employees who are using state purchases and calls for tender for their own personal gain. Community members search out expensive and short public calls for bids. Membership is open to all. A flagged call for bids is then monitored and evaluated by the site\'s experts. Should the experts uncover irregularities, they contact prosecutors to file a lawsuit. Several call for bids have been suspended because of the site\'s work. Lawyers are paid by donations made to the site. Three well-known blogger monitor the distribution of donations.

A Facebook group formed in honor of a young man from Alexandria named Khaled Saeed, who was killed by police. His death sparked the January 25 revolution in Egypt, which toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak. The Facebook group, which has more than 1 million followers, played an instrumental role in the revolution and helped mobilize people online and advocate political efforts on the ground.

Journalist and researcher Omi Rahman Pial is one of the most popular Bangla bloggers. He dedicated his blogging activities to demanding the trial of the war criminals and anti-liberation forces of Bangladesh. He has succeeded in motivating many young bloggers in this cause, and some war criminals' trials have started, but the fight for justice continues. He is also creating an archive of material from the time when Bangladesh became independent in 1971 to serve as a genocide archive.

Creating a blog about the power of drug cartels in the very city you live in doesn't seem like such a smart idea. But that's exactly the risk the young journalist Judith Torrea took. She reports on the situation of a city in northern Mexico that suffers from the grip of crime. She talks to victims, the futile work of the police and shines a light on the cartels' brutality by publishing the terrible ways they work.

The collective blog of the Novaya Gazeta newspaper's editorial team. The paper, for which murdered journalists A. Politkowskaja und Anastassija Baburowa wrote, is one of Russia's few independent print media organizations.

This site uses the breath of the Web’s offerings to raise awareness of the plight of migrant workers in the Middle East - who make up a significant portion of the workforce in some Gulf states often working in manual labor or employed as domestic staff in homes - and to push for action that puts an end to the modern-day slavery and other human rights violations with which many migrants to the region are forced to live. The site includes a database of groups that help migrants who are too often left unseen and forgotten.

A platform for all the indigenous people in Bangladesh, Adibashi is an umbrella term for a heterogeneous set of ethnic and tribal groups claimed to be the aboriginal population of Bangladesh and India. Almost 1 million of them reside in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and are vulnerable minorities. The regions was granted a limited degree of autonomy after a rash of violence from militant tribe members as well as Bengali settlers and soldiers led to accusations of human rights abuses on all sides. The Adibashi, however, remain a poor and vulnerable minority whose language is being forgotten and whose cultures are being suppressed. The launch of the Adibashi platform made it possible for any people, mainly students, to express themselves freely.

Tons of videos surfaced on the Internet during Iran’s Green Revolution and many of the best made among them were created by the artist known as “Stands with Fist.”

Picture this: all the heads of state from Latin America end up on a deserted island. What do you think will happen? Will Hugo Chavez want to take control? Would Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner again be the one and only lady of state? Those images and more are waiting for users who watch this blog's cartoons.

A blog by Egyptian blogger Eman Hashim that deals with Egyptian daily life, with a special focus and a first-hand account of political developments in Egypt, including the Egyptian revolution and its aftermath.

A writer, journalist and blogger Arif Jebtik is a voice against injustice. He often uses his own sometimes teasing and satirical style to raise the issues that to lead to blogger campaigns.

The authors of the blog are a group of volunteer translators, who hope to offer the most current news from China and the rest of the world.

Mahmoud Salem, the long-anonymous blogger behind Rantings of a Sandmonkey, at least once promised to give up his blog. And the world is a better informed place because he broke that promise. The activist blogger’s witty and courageous writing has called for freedom and democracy in Egypt long before this year’s uprising, in which he was beaten and arrested. Nothing, however, stopped him from continuing to call for Egyptians to continue their protests.

Yasmine is a standard in the field of online gaming with her blog about “serious games.” She talks about games designed to educate, train and develop a collective sense of consciousness and citizenship.

A witty blog by Stefanie Lamm, a fan of the Berlin football club 1FC Union, about, well, she says it's about the 1FC Union team, but it really about life in general.

Sugar keeps it simple and sweet. This blog isn’t packed with videos - or even pictures - but that doesn’t keep it from being very well read.

Alberto Montt offers his users a daily dose of humor in his blog. According to his Montt, the blog is inspired by Gary Larson and Quino and there's plenty of anthropomorphism for everyone. He uses the blog to do what he's always wanted: show the world the craziness inside his head.