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Chomsky rulez!
With a little help from his friends and fans, Noam Chomsky's political writings are getting an online makeover. Last week saw the launch of a Noam Chomsky weblog. And in December, web designer Pablo Stafforini unveiled the official Noam Chomsky website, http://www.Chomsky.info .
Chomsky's new blog, Turning the Tide ( http://blog.zmag.org/ttt/ ), is the brainchild of ZNet's Michael Albert. "We decided to try some blogs, Noam was game," Albert tells Press Action. In its welcome message to readers, Chomsky's blog says: "This blog will include brief comments on diverse topics of concern in our time. They will sometimes come from the ZNet Sustainer Forum System where Noam interacts through a forum of his own, sometimes from direct submissions, sometimes culled from mail and other outlets — always from Noam Chomsky."
I wrote to Chomsky last week, thanking him for providing me his opinion on the fairness of a military draft and informing him that I had included a link to his new Turning the Tide weblog on Press Action. Chomsky responded: "I don't know what the new web log is (or even what the term refers to). I know that Mike Albert put up something, but don't know anything about it."
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During its first couple days as a live site, Turning the Tide had an interactive comment feature. But the component was turned off due to the abusive nature of some of the messages posted. "Comments have been removed from the Chomsky blog — thank goodness!" Brian Leiter wrote in his blog. "It's a shame, of course, that one couldn't have a forum for intelligent discussion of the range of issues Chomsky raises, but it is inevitable, it seems, that the comments will be filled with garbage from the hordes of resentful Chomsky haters."
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