We have been bragging about the frequency of Foko bloggers updates since November 2008, with an average of 70 posts per month on various topics, ( view Foko delicious page for categories :http://delicious.com/foko) from Malagasy fashion trends to politics, but we’ve noticed very few comments even on star-bloggers* . Thanks to the Community spirit (Foko means community, right?) bloggers are leaving comments at each other and creating interesting debates (Foko’s Netvibes’ comments section : http://www.netvibes.com/foko#COMMENTAIRES). We also know that the very little time they have online don’t allow most of them to publish long and detailed comments which is a great way to promote a blog.
Latest posts from Jelona in Fianarantsoa :
So maybe…YOU, READER, can come to their rescue.
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What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial
and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it
concerns me at all. The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their
columns specially to politics or government without charge; and
this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature
and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any
rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much. I have not got
to answer for having read a single President’s Message. A strange
age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come
a-begging to a private man’s door, and utter their complaints at his
elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched
government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is
interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it- more importunate than
an Italian beggar; and if I have a mind to look at its certificate,
made, perchance, by some benevolent merchant’s clerk, or the skipper
that brought it over, for it cannot speak a word of English itself,
I shall probably read of the eruption of some Vesuvius, or the
overflowing of some Po, true or forged, which brought it into this
condition. I do not hesitate, in such a case, to suggest work, or
the almshouse; or why not keep its castle in silence, as I do
commonly? The poor President, what with preserving his popularity
and doing his duty, is completely bewildered. The newspapers are the
ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort
Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government
will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason in
these days.