Engineers and security people
You run networks or hunt bugs for a living. Tell the story behind the outage that only insiders know.
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Write for Blackout Map
Know how the internet breaks? Write about it under your own name. You pick the topic. We give you readers, a proper edit and an author page with your photo.
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23posts read in the last 30 days
14languages our readers use
Who we are looking for
Guest writers who know their subject. You don't need a big name or a journalism degree: building a name is what this is for.
Students
Studying IT, security, journalism or political science? Publish something real that you can show an employer.
New tech journalists
Build a portfolio with in-depth pieces on infrastructure and the politics of internet blocks.
Data people
Take our outage data, add your own and find what nobody has noticed yet.
Digital rights people
Write about censorship and shutdowns from close by, with facts and sources behind every claim.
Researchers
Turn your paper or thesis into a story that people outside your field want to read.
What you get
Your own author page
Your photo, a short bio, links to your site and profiles, and everything you wrote for us, on one address you can put on your CV.
Your name on your work
Every post carries your byline and links to your author page. No ghostwriting: the work stays yours.
Real readers
Your post goes on the blog and we share it on our social media, starting with X.
You pick the topic
Write about what you find interesting. We don't hand out assignments: if it fits the site, we want to read it.
A proper edit
A person reads every draft, checks the facts and sends it back with suggestions. You see the final text before it goes live.
Our data
Need numbers for your story? Use our charts and outage history, and ask us when you need something that isn't on the site.
What you can write about
Anything about how the internet and the services on it stay up, or don't. A few ideas, not a list to stick to:
- Internet shutdowns and censorship
- Big outages and what went wrong
- DNS, BGP and routing
- Cloud, CDNs and hosting
- Undersea cables and satellites
- Power grids and the networks behind them
- Security flaws and how to defend against them
- Keeping websites and apps online
- Privacy and digital rights
- How disasters hit networks
What we won't publish
This is a place for writers, not a back door for link builders. Search engines punish sites that fill up with that stuff, and readers leave. So we turn down all of this:
Ads in disguise
A post that exists to push a product, your employer or a client. If you have a stake in what you write about, tell us and say so in the post.
Paid links and link deals
We don't sell posts, links or sponsored slots, and we don't swap links. Offer money or ask for a dofollow link and you won't hear from us.
Writing for search engines
Keyword stuffing, posts built around a phrase someone wants to rank for, and links with forced anchor text. Write for the person reading.
Affiliate and tracking links
None at all, in the post or in your bio.
Shady niches
Casinos, betting, crypto tips, loans, pills, adult sites. Not in the post, not in your bio, not on the site you link to.
Text nobody really wrote
Spun, rewritten or pasted straight from an AI tool. Tools can help, but the thinking, the words and the checking have to be yours.
Copies
Anything already published elsewhere, including your own blog, or an existing article in other words.
Claims without sources
Every number, quote and technical claim needs a source we can check. No rumours, and no scare stories for clicks.
Attack guides
Explain how something failed and how to defend against it. No working exploits and no help with attacking anyone.
Campaigning
Writing about a government that cuts a country off is exactly what we do. Campaigning for a party or a candidate is not.
How it works
Pitch
Tell us your idea in a few lines and show us something you wrote before.
Write
If it's a fit, we say yes and you write the full post, with your sources.
Edit
We check the facts and suggest changes. You approve the final version.
Publish
It goes live with your name, your author page opens, and we share it.
The small print
- Payment
- None. We don't pay for posts, and you never pay us.
- Copyright
- Yours. You give us the right to publish, translate and share the post.
- Language
- English. We may translate your post for readers elsewhere.
- Length
- Usually 800 to 2,000 words. As long as the story needs.
- Your links
- Links to your own site or profiles are nofollow: they are for readers, not for rankings.
- Your identity
- A real person. Pen names are fine if you need one for your safety or your job, as long as we know who you are.
Pitch a post
Your e-mail address is only used to answer you.
A good pitch
Has one clear idea, not a broad subject. "How Pakistan took YouTube down in 2008" beats "The history of BGP".
Says what you know that others don't: you were there, you ran the numbers, you fixed it.
Comes from you. Mass mails to "the editor" go unanswered.