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What's good with a Liberator blog network? There
are a lot of great personal and niche blogs out there and it's
absolutely great that we're becoming a generation of so many
voices and spaces. But one thing we are greatly lacking are
unified, collective voices and spaces, which is exactly what The
Liberator is all about. Don't sleep, THAT right there, the
destruction of our consistent, collective spaces (not just the
"political" or the "economic" ones: but the eco-political social
ones, the eco-political fun ones, the eco-political spiritual
ones) was the intended -- and successful? -- effect of
COINTELPRO. So we're left with a "specialized" generation,
where the idea of a jack-of-all-trades media struggles to exist.
There's nothing inherently wrong with 50 blogs about fashion,
isolated from the 50 blogs about history, isolated from the 50
blogs about music, isolated from the 50 blogs about national
politics, isolated from the 50 blogs about love, isolated from
the 50 blogs about celebrities, isolated from the 50 blogs about
business, isolated from the 50 blogs about women's products,
isolated from the 50 blogs about world politics.
BUT, if we do that at the EXPENSE of inter-communication, we
lose. We lose because our fashion is not political, our politics
are not fashionable, our music is not historical, our history is
not popular and so on...
In the spirit of progress, the ideal in any community is to
reach full potential as an individual, but also to recognize
that without being of service to the collective, the individual
cannot fulfill her potential at all. We're a generation that
would more often rather go about "doing you" [can anyone say "Do
You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness
and Success by Russell Simmons"] than do the hard work that
it takes to "do us".
Here's our suggestion: If you'd like to support the collective
without sacrificing your individual voice and space on the
internets, consider adding a Liberator navigation bar to your blog. The "blogs" link on the navbar will link to this page
where visitors will see your blog listed in the sidebar. You can also join The Liberator Blog and make occasional posts there if interested.
If you have a Blogger blog it's pretty easy. Just:
1) Go to your Blogger dashboard page and click the layout link
for your blog.
2) Click on the "edit" HTML link.
3) Locate (ctrl + f) this code (without the brackets) [div
id='outer-wrapper'] and paste this code:
directly above that line, as illustrated below:
If you have a blog on another service you can either comment,
and we'll help, or read up on how to Create
An iFrame, use our code, and do it yourself.
Bonus, hide the ugly Blogger navbar:
If you'd also like to hide the default Blogger navbar just paste
this code
right above the variable definitions, at the very top of your
template code:
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The Liberator
weblog.liberatormagazine.com
Fidja
Di Agu
fidjadiagu.blogspot.com
Lolaka ya Afrika
lolakayaafrika.blogspot.com
Tasha's Truth
tashastruth.blogspot.com
Symposium, Conference and Convention
Notes
naapishana.blogspot.com The
World Is Ours
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