Whatreallyhappened: The power of Blogging

This blog has three posts on the power of blogging, showing ten’s of millions of visitors a day (alexa.com) to various alternative blogs. But a professional like Michael Riviero says it all better. I AM BLOGGER, HEAR ME ROAR! The mainstream media has finally acknowledged what has been obvious for quite some time; that the internet web logs, or “blogs”, are here to stay. Far from being a passing fad, blogs like the present one existed before the word “blog” was coined to describe them. After nearly 14 years, and a readership that exceeds that of most city newspapers, the suggestion that blogs like this one are a passing fancy is at best wishful thinking. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/blogger.html

Corporate media losing to the internet

Cultures are known for their prowess in a certain area: French: food, Greeks: Shipping, English: music, Asians: dexterity. Then there is the media: That is thoughts, truths, spin, a kind of thought control. This has now been lost to the internet. Our thoughts are no longer the preserve of the corporate media. This will no doubt manifest itself in the most unlikely of ways. Precisely because it is new and untried. An Egyptian general strike was recently more or less organised on the internet. So in the future a buffoon in power will make an edict (for example: the draft) or an incident like voter fraud will happen, and suddenly the whole country or world will unite through the internet. Just what people will do if a Government tries to censor the internet is unknown. But for now the powerful can only look on as they see the internet bypass their points of view. What has the media got to do with cultural strengths? The media has until now been in the hands of the few.

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Political power of internet unstoppable.

Microsoft was probably more preeminent around a decade ago. Then the Netscape browser appeared and Microsoft tried everything it could to catch up, it took them more than a year to be on a par with Netscape. Around Internet Explorer 3 although it was called something different then. And so it is with the world and the powerful. They made calculations without the internet in mind. A lot of mankind is joining the dots on the net. Neither the world nor Microsoft could believe the little upstart Netscape. And similarly now, the authorities cannot contend with the sheer volume of people exchanging information. Now people are examining the conspiracies. Never before could the media be bypassed, and a free joining with other people. A colossal amount of people on the net, all adding to one jigsaw puzzle or another. All the truths will out. Egypts recent unrest was publicised through the Social Networking site: Facebook. rss.wn.com/English/related-articles/ 2008/05/03/Food_price_crisis_bites_in_Egypt/ Ron Paul collected record amounts of donations from joe public on the internet.

Firefox Portable Apps, Private browser

Put this on an SD card, take it with you wherever you go, all your bookmarks and passwords are with you, not on the computer you are using. Firefox have just released this update which has really speeded up the browser. And as always it is a superior browser comared to IE. And also for WordPress Blogs!

This is a portable self contained browser!

Blogging reached 1,000 hits today (my blog).

This blog is seven weeks old, I had wanted to predict events, and really I didn’t succeed, although I had some close calls.

I might do a tally of close encounters in the future.

But I have often come up with a title or theme - only to see it appear again somewhere else within hours or a day or a few days.

So to some degree I might have my finger on the pulse. To write alternative news could be seen as an opportunistic endeavor - to touch upon the zeitgeist. But I would be much happier promoting a mainstream awakening. It is just not the reality at this time. My posts might contain insights but they are not investigative, so perhaps I need to team up with someone who has their ear to the ground.

Just why or how people visit is still a mystery to me, but with the posts accumulating, that in itself allows for higher amounts of hits.

I guess to have a successful blog, that one could live from, tens of thousands of hits per day would be required. It has been hard so far, and I have enjoyed the challenge…

Time will make me create a style. I am grateful for your visit. I have been encouraged to feature subjects that receive the most visitors, and would you believe the nemesis of life, that I should be featuring issues of Judaism and Zionism. Will it ever end?!

BTW I don’t know how many rss feeds (if any) are going on.

And thank you www.wordpress.com - to make a blog of your own, you just need an email address.

Which web sites are fronts for the intelligence agencies?

Which web sites are fronts for the intelligence agencies?

It is impossible to know. Their reach is everywhere. They also have differing views within their organisations. On a site with multiple authours, some of the contributors are surely ‘plants’. Just as the drug squad police want to make friends with dealers and informers, and have to be seen to do ’some deals’. So on the political front it is the same. With the advent of modern technology, absolute surveillance is impossible to avoid.

Although I think if you swim out 80 metres in a noisy wavy ocean, maybe you cannot be eavesdropped upon. Otherwise nothing but nothing but nothing is private. Then of course there are natural divisions within an opposition movement. Opposing the Iraq saga, you could be pro Shia, Baathist, an anarchist, anti imperialist, a Pacifist etc.

Then there are the trolls, people who leave comments in order to distract from a theme or a message in the article or by another commenter. Typically an argument/discussion is started by two commenters.

Zionism is dead; Rootless Cosmopolitan

How to be a blogger, when there is so much good blogging, and I mean really Good Blogging:

Tony Karon writes: israel is alive zionism is dead what now, He is a senior editor at Time magazine, so it is also a coherent article. Sifting through the many comments there is a link to a current editorial in LeMonde on Avraham Burg (once the chairman of the World Zionist Organisation), who is also saying the same thing (Zionism is dead). Then there are commenters on how the zionists conspired to get the Jews into Israel as opposed to settling in the US or Europe, but nobody mentions false flags.

Maybe being anti zionist will become fashionable, is anyone actually happy there? Apart from the settlers (often Americans).

There is a little irony in the story being picked up by non jewish anti zionist web sites.

Less news on Sundays

Seems like on Sundays there is less news.

It is only the Christian world that has Sundays off, isn’t it?

Must be less journalists and news editors working.

The front page of WordPress is only boasting 86,000 new posts today.

On a weekday I often see twice that figure.

Google Blog Search, I just discovered it

Reflections on blogging.

I have been a Blogger for 3 weeks.
It has been great fun.
It is of course a chance to ‘mouth off’. Also I see the scope for the therapy value of reflecting.
There is the chance to see what other people are doing.
And the FAQs about making a blog popular suggest that going softly softly is unlikely to bring results. Expressing strong opinions and being controversial are more likely to bring readers, and of course it all takes time, but it is important to post frequently, according to the FAQs guidelines.
This platform at WordPress.com has some advantages, it feels a little like a social network. But more intellectual and less vulnerable to other people imposing themselves in your space. The technical support is very good and responsive. And like in any community, there are some restrictions.
There are a lot of ‘tricks of the trade’ to learn. If only; what works best on one’s computer. I do most of my writing (and uploading) with my thumbs on an old Palm Treo smartphone.
Yesterday I misread a news item, then I made a whole commentary and posted it. Fortunately I caught the mistake in under an hour and deleted it. But most of the lessons learned are to do with the technical presenting.
So I hope to continue being opinionated and trying to stir things up.
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Middle East Political Blogs on WordPress

Looking around WordPress, which is where I am blogging, I found four other Blogs, concentrating on the Middle East, and providing an alternative to the mainstream press. I am sure there are many many more here. You can start your own blog for free by providing an email address!

http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/ 242,000 since January 2008,

Name: Desert Peace

Location: Jerusalem, Israel

From my very first post….

I am originally from the United States. I have been living in Jerusalem, Israel for 23 years and have dedicated all of those years to try and create an atmosphere that will lead to a just and permanent peace in this area. Israelis and Palestinians have more in common that the outsider might see… I will attempt on this blog to show those similarities and show why I am so confident that one day we will live in peace together.
I know it can be done!

About…

Active Peace/Civil Rights Worker.. Aiming to establish a just and lasting peace between Israel and Palestine, while at the same time continue the struggle against racism and for peace throughout the world. Email me at.. manopeace@gmail.com

DesertPeace originally started out at Blogspot in October 2005. Because of continual technical difficulties it was moved to WordPress in January of 2008…. all archives were moved as well.

http://fanonite.wordpress.com/

The Fanonite was set up during Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in summer 2006 when the BBC threw all caution to the wind and started serving as Israel’s official propaganda organ. BBC’s pattern of skewed coverage on the Middle East is consistent and has been amply documented by the Glasgow University Meida Group and Spinwatch, two research units with which I have had an association. Nevertheless, it came as a surprise that after the GUMG study, Bad News From Israel, and BBC’s own independent review — which found its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “incomplete” and “misleading” — it should put its credibility on the line to serve as a surrogate of the Israeli ministry of information.          240,173 hits            since April 2006

http://eldib.wordpress.com/ 223,762 hits

http://persia1.wordpress.com/

I am from Iran. Persia was the international name used for Iran until, I guess, last century when they wrongly changed it.

I have spent more than a decade of my life in US and have enjoyed being there. I found American people and their culture one of the most wonderful in the world. However, I feel that as in most of other countries, including ours, US people are being played by their government under the name of democracy, freedom, fighting terrorism , etc. Fortunately, many Americans know this very well.

Today, US government is mainly in the hands of Jewish lobby. A presidential candidate must prove his/her loyalty to them and to Israel to get allowed to run for presidency! They control most media around the world and inside the US and when necessary use their propaganda machines to prepare massacres around the world. We saw it in Iraq, in Palestine inside the occupied territories, . . .

Dissident Jews, anti zionists (as it is)

AIPAC, Feith, Rove, the VP, they sunk the ship.

Ruined everything for everyone, every action is now a fiasco. The latest is called Malaki’s assault on Sadr.

Rense and What Really Happened are getting 4 million hits a day (See graph). Uri Avneri is syndicated onto many other web sites. Rootless Cosmopolitans, Tikkun are others.  (What Really Happened: Mike Rivero champions his long time Jewish wife). All in all this  suggests non Jewish dissident sites are getting 50 times that.

It will be interesting to see the bloodletting (figuratively speaking), the blame game will have to start. Last week kissinger was speaking of the unity of the US and Israel, well in deciphering politalspeak, that must mean it’s under threat.

To bring a nation into disrepute is a serious crime. Where is the court? There are people who have taken us to the abyss of morality. And would like to do more. The Hague is for war criminals. Where’s the Jewish court? For enslaving a nation of Jews into a pursuit of hegemony. For denying a nation of individuals any hope of reaching their individual destinies. For pursuing policies that have no regard for individual privacy. For riding roughshod over each and everyone’s family. The bible might be the greatest book ever written. But it’s fan club is merely following the rules in a dogmatic way,

My first Blog!

My first Blog could only be about wordpress.com. That is where I am typing into. Lots of buttons and navigation tools. Basically ya just gotta keep clicking on them till ya get familiar.

There is nothing to do, but learn the technology. They’ve made it easy enough, guess they have the right mix, between options and simplicity.