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                    PubSub bookmarks
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                    » Information and resources about Blasta, collaborative
                    bookmarks with an Irish manner.
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                <h3>
                    About Blasta
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                <p>
                    Blasta is a collaborative bookmarks manager for organizing
                    online content. It allows you to add links to your personal
                    collection of links, to categorize them with keywords, and
                    to share your collection not only among your own software,
                    devices and machines, but also with others.
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                    Once you are connected to the service, you add a simple
                    <a href="/help/utilities#buttons">bookmarklet</a> to your
                    browser. When you find a page of your interest, you can
                    use the Blasta bookmarklet, and enter information about the
                    given page. You can add descriptive terms, group similar
                    links together and add notes for yourself or for others.
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                    You can access your list of links from any browser. Your
                    links are shown to you with those you have added most
                    recently at the top. In addition to viewing by date, you can
                    also view all links with a specific keyword you define, or
                    search your links for potential keywords.
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                    What makes Blasta a collaborative system is its ability to
                    display to you the links that other people have collected,
                    as well as showing you who else has bookmarked a specific
                    link. You can also view the links collected by others, and
                    subscribe to the links of people whose lists you deem to be
                    interesting.
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                    Blasta does not limit you to save links of certain types;
                    you can save links of types adc, dweb, ed2k, feed, ftp,
                    gemini, geo, gopher, http, ipfs, irc, magnet, mailto,
                    monero, mms, news, sip, udp, xmpp and any scheme and type
                    that you desire.
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                    Blasta was inspired by projects Movim and Rivista.
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                <h4>
                    Why Blasta?
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                    Corporate search engines are archaic and outdated, and often
                    prioritize their own interests, leading to censorship and
                    distortion of important and vital information. This results
                    in unproductive and low-quality search outcomes.
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                    With the collaborative indexing system which Blasta offers,
                    and its <a href="/help/about/folksonomy">folksonomical</a>
                    nature you can be rest assured that you will find the
                    references and resources that you need in order to be
                    productive and get that you need.
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                <h4>
                    The things that you can do with Blasta are endless
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                    Blasta is an open-ended indexing system, and, as such, it
                    provides a versatile platform with which you have the
                    ability to tailor its usage according to your desired
                    preferences. <a href="/help/about/ideas">Learn more</a>.
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                <h4>
                    The difference from other services
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                    Unlike some so called "social" bookmarking systems, Blasta
                    does not own your information; your bookmarks are
                    categorically owned and controlled by you; your bookmarks
                    are stored as <a href="/help/about/xmpp/pubsub">PubSub</a>
                    items within your own XMPP account; <u>you are the soveriegn
                    of your information</u>, and it is always under your
                    <a href="/help/about/philosophy#control">control</a>.
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                    This means, that if Blasta be offline tomorrow, your
                    personal bookmarks, private and public, remain intact inside
                    your personal XMPP account under PubSub node
                    <code>urn:xmpp:bibliography:0</code>.
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                <h4>
                    Information that is stored by Blasta
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                    In order for Blasta to facilitate sharing of information and
                    accessibility to information, Blasta aggregates your own
                    public bookmarks and the public bookmarks of other people,
                    in order to create a database of its own, with which Blasta
                    manages and rates references to build recommendations and
                    gather statistics of resources that are both valid and
                    bookmarked more often than other resources.
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                    Blasta does not store links of bookmarks that are marked by
                    all of their owners as private and no one else has stored
                    them in a public fashion (i.e. not classified private).
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                <h4>
                    Blasta source code
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                    The source code of Blasta is available under the terms of
                    the license <a href="/license/agpl-3.0.txt">AGPL-3.0</a> at
                    <a href="https://git.xmpp-it.net/sch/Blasta">
                    git.xmpp-it.net</a>.
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                <h4>
                    Our motives
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                    We are adopting the attitude towards life and towards death,
                    which was implicit in the old Vikings' and in Schopenhauer's
                    statements: <a href="/help/questions#perspective">
                    Living for the sake of eternity</a>.
                    Living with eternity always in mind, instead of living only
                    for the moment.
                    The attitude that the individual is not an in and of
                    himself, but lives for and through something greater, in
                    particular for and through his racial community, which is
                    eternal.
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                    About us
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                    Blasta was proudly made in the Republic of Ireland, by a
                    group of bible loving, religious, and stylish Irish men, who
                    have met each other, for the first time, at the Irish Red
                    Head Convention, and who dearly enjoy tea, and who love
                    their wives, children and their ancestors.
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                    It is important to mention that we have met Mr. Schimon
                    Zachary, at the consequent Irish Red Head Convention of the
                    proceeding year, and he was the one who has initiated the
                    idea of XMPP PubSub bookmarks.
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                    Conclusion
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                    Blasta is for you to enjoy, excite, instigate, investigate,
                    learn and research.
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                    We hope you would have productive outcomes with Blasta.
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                <p class="quote bottom">
                    “All you can take with you; is that which you have given
                    away.”
                    ― It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
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