Replace Amsterdam with Iraq and Palestine. Replace the old confidant, the diary, with its modern avtar, the blog. And you have online personal accounts of people living in strife-hit regions, in politically troubled zones. It seems all too familiar: the stories of fear, of oppression, of denial of rights. The doubts, anxieties and hope. But what is different is the accessibility to and use of such tales. While Anne Frank* used her diary to pen her...