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Blogs are a familiar feature on the internet - where users post content in an accumulating manner, with comments, and search options, etc. They facilitate expression and exploration, and via attached comments, also debate and synthesis.


Reading and
Navigating Blogs

Our blogs are quite powerful. Each writer can post, as is typically the case. Sustainers who have the option can also post, however. All Blogs appear in the blog system, and sometimes also in content boxes the top page of ZNet - and always via the left menu of the top page - and can be found via searches, etc.

Commenting on blogs follows the blogs, attached at the bottom, and blog comments, like all others, are also visible in many places that show comments including in the forum system. In addition, the entire blog system gathers content for everyone - but one can look at the accumulating content in many ways.

  • For example one can look at one writer's efforts - so one is seeing what is effectively a blog system for that one writer, or Sustainer.
  • One can also look at the content by topic, seeing blogs that are tagged as being about a certain topic - or place, as well. Thus, when doing that, it is a blog system about a topic, or a place, with many contributors.
  • One can look at only writer blogs, or only sustainer blogs, as well.
  • One can look at blogs for particular Groups, too.

All this is easily done using the left menu. Searches allow even more variables and refinements.


Creating Blog Posts

If you are a Sustainer with permission, and are logged in, you will see a link in the left menu for you to post a blog - and you can use that to post one, and then tag it various ways (such as with a topic or place, or a group tag), and once you do, it is in the system with you as the author.

You can also use the console button to the left to post a blog - anytime and from anywhere in the site, as long as you are logged in.

Meanwhile, enjoy the blogs - and, by the way, if you are a Free Member or a Sustainer with a ZSpace page, of course you can put one or more content boxes on it, pulling blog links of any sort you may want to filter for, for example, by you or by your friends or by others - and by topic, about places, for groups, etc.

Z Blogs

Conglomerated

There’s something inherently wrong and irreversibly damaging about a culture where potentially the same conglomerate corporation owns and manufactures the food you feed your dog, the tablets you take for a cold, your electronic toothbrush and the batteries that operate it.... (More) Comments (0)

Bangladesh Sweatshop Disaster

The recent building collapse and ongoing sweatshop fires in Bangladesh killing hundreds of poor garment workers are no different from the mass suicides of “Monsanto farmers” in India, oil pipeline fires killing poor children in Nigeria or i-Phone factory worker deaths in China. At the heart of all these tragedies is the pre-historic, global greed of corporations that decidedly puts profit before people, and flays even the basic human rights of working men, women and children, jeopardizing their lives, livelihoods and dignity.... (More) Comments (0)

Note to LA Times RE: Venezuela and Pluralism in the Media

Note to LA Times RE: Venezuela and Pluralism in the Media... (More) Comments (0)

Growing Racism and the Social Crisis in Greece

3 days in central Athens with Algerian refugees listening to their stories and experiences. A chronic context but the humanity of the refugees shines through.... (More) Comments (0)

Glenn Greenwald speaks out against Amnesty's refusal to name Bradley Manning a Prisoner of Conscience

Glenn Greenwald speaks out against Amnesty's refusal to name Bradley Manning a Prisoner of Conscience... (More) Comments (0)

A Reuters Article that Might help Prevent Political Violence in Venezuela

A Reuters Article that Might help Prevent Political Violence in Venezuela ... (More) Comments (0)

Global Sustainability

Perhaps the greatest threat to global sustainability is the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which is currently being negotiated in secret. June 2013 Green Time TV explores its costs to social justice and the environment.... (More) Comments (0)

El dictador en su laberinto

A reflection - in Spanish - of former Guatemalan dictator Ríos Montt's closing statement at his dramatic trial for genocide in Guatemala City on May 9, 2013.... (More) Comments (4)

Victory in Court

When Judge Wilcox asked me what happened on March 5th, 2013 I said the following: 1) Housing and shelter is a basic human right. 2) Olympia and Thurston County criminalize the poor and homeless. 3) That in response to this increased criminalization of homeless people and as someone who has organized to end homelessness, and in order to take action in solidarity with homeless people, I went onto the parking lot of the abandoned Fish and Wildlife Building on North Washington St. in Olympia on March 5th at about 6:15 P.M. 4) I saw the State Police on the property and heard their order to leave but decided to remain on the property to show my support for the on-site temporary shelter and the people there. ... (More) Comments (0)

Why is Corporate America? fanning the flames of violence in Chicago?

“At times like this when CPS is making an attempt to close the most schools at one time in the nation, I don’t think you need another Columbine or Connecticut or another suicide because of bullying.” --- Sherise McDaniel, Chicago Public School parent... (More) Comments (0)

Origin in Loss

All the sounds. All the noise. None of it, emanates from the real world. We have been made deaf to the sounds of the real world. We are forever drowning in an engineered reality, saturated in the deafening noise of the mega-Technopoly.... (More) Comments (0)

Bitumen pipelines are dangerous

Oilsands products and their pipelines are dangerous.... (More) Comments (0)

Blood Politics and the Fascists in Greece

We look at Golden Dawn's strategy for creating blood banks for Greeks (only) and the complicity of the Greek state.... (More) Comments (0)

Are cell phone trees considered GMO's

Have cell phone trees adapted themselves to be part of the natural tree oxygen cycle. This maybe one of the leading problems in global warming the proliferation of unnatural man made life forms.... (More) Comments (0)

UKIP: Resisting the politics of the right

Votes for UKIP the right wing UK political party is an indication of a level hate politics gaining momentum over and above economic and social causes. With the Tory state and a dominant right wing press in the UK working the same message socliasts have to take a principles stand and work for working class unity.... (More) Comments (0)

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