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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

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Entrance Blockaded

Seniors, people with disabilities and health care workers blocked the front entrance to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange(CME) on Wednesday, May 23 around 9:30 am, as well the adjacent Jackson and LaSalle Streets. ... (More) Comments (0)

IOPS: Towards a Credible International

Duscussion on priorities for IOPS members during the interim phase.... (More) Comments (0)

Note to George Monbiot regarding his latest smear of Chomsky, Znet and others

Note to George Monbiot regarding his latest smear of Chomsky, Znet and others... (More) Comments (0)

Monbiot pulls a Hitchens

There is just something about British left intellectuals. Christopher Hitchens fell from grace when he allowed his atheism to become a tool for Western imperialism. Now The Guardian UK's George Monbiot has pulled a Hitchens by allowing his outrage of "genocide" to become a tool for Western imperialism. ... (More) Comments (2)

Opposition Rising in Russia

First hand accounts of big demos in Moscow by Alexei and Julia Guseva indicate rising opposition, while the Putin regime seems clueless.... (More) Comments (0)

The Market and the Common Good

The tension between the market and the common as exposed by Eduardo Saverins decision to renounce his US citizenship.... (More) Comments (0)

Vets Radio Show--

Discusses an innovative radio show that interviews movement activists and intellectuals from around the world, while featuring veterans issues.... (More) Comments (0)

Am I Over The Hill

Discussion of My News Book And Media Issues... (More) Comments (0)

Journalists Examine Media's NATO coverage

National Writers Union: Four journalists to examine media's coverage of NATO meetings in Chicago.... (More) Comments (0)

PROTEST NATO in Chicago

Link to list of protest activities against NATO in Chicago--get an idea of all that's going on!... (More) Comments (0)

Imagine A Stadium

A plea for organization...... (More) Comments (4)

Hamid Dabashi- Newt Gingrich: The Invented Political Gnome

The Republican politician has yet to show initiatives that are his own, not those of his donors.... (More) Comments (0)

KKE's Plight

Some thoughts about KKE's dismal performance in the Greek General election, May 2012 based on a correspondence with a former KKE member and dear friend.... (More) Comments (0)

Caterpillar on Strike

The Caterpillar workers of IAM Lodge 851 did not go on strike May 1 on a careless whim. They clearly believe they can win against a viciously anti-union company.... (More) Comments (0)

Bust the AgBiz Trust

USDA and DOJ held antitrust hearings around the nation. The results are poor. Congress gutted the proposed revisions. We must call for the Obama Administration and Congress to support the 11 antitrust measures that were recently excluded by Congress under corporate pressure.... (More) Comments (0)

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