Formol (formaldehyde) is a digital publication by an author, non-profit, with no set frequency, no editorial staff, no editorial board, no political party line, and no patience to pretend that this would ever be a limitation.
Ownership. The website is the exclusive property of its author. It is not for sale. It is not under negotiation. It has no growth potential. The author lives in Oeiras. The voice is the identity. The name doesn’t add a thing.
Editorial line. The formol.cc publishes three formats: chronicles, outbursts and autopsies. The chronicles accuse. The outbursts do not explain. Autopsies investigate without prior knowledge of where they will end up. The original texts are written in continental European Portuguese. The English version is the author’s own translation. The two versions are not equivalent: they are adaptations.
Frequency of publication. It publishes when he there is something to say.
Funding. None. There is no advertising, sponsorships, paid subscriptions or institutional support. The work wasn’t written to please anyone with money, which automatically makes it suspect to those who have money.
Independência editorial. Total, due to the absence of interested parties. No economic group, political party, cultural association, embassy, car dealer, food supplement brand, or real estate investment fund has had any influence on what is written here. Nor will it ever have.
Corrections. Factual errors are corrected without a footnote or ceremony. Opinions are not rectified — they are replaced when the evidence warrants it, which is rarer than it should be.
What formol.cc is not. It’s not a blog. Blogs had comments and hope. It is not an opinion. It’s what’s left after the opinion has given up. It’s not for everyone. But it’s not for anyone in particular either. It is not a project. It is a symptom with its own web domain. It doesn’t explain. Anyone who needs an explanation has other places to go.
It has no mission, nor vision, nor values. It has text.
It’s not for sharing. But you can.