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Hello,

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.

Blogs

Bombing Auschwitz

Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu equates America's refusal to sanction an attack on Iran with the allies refusal to bomb Auschwitz during the second world war. But would an attack on Auschwitz have stopped the mass murder or even been feasible?... (More) Comments (0)

Jesus and praying in public

The National Secular Society win a High court ruling banning Prayers before Council meetings. The British government then overturns the ban despite the fact that praying in public goes against what Jesus taught in the sermon on the mount.... (More) Comments (0)

China, Russia, the US & UN

Hilary Clinton criticises Russia and China for vetoing a UN resolution condemning violence against protesters in Syria, but the US is often alone in vetoing resolutions criticising Israel... (More) Comments (0)

Stephen Lawrence and the Media

The Daily Mail receives great praise for its coverage of the Stephen lawrence investigation but at first like much of the media it was not particularly interested in the murder of a black teenager... (More) Comments (3)

Obama, Republican Candidates and Israel

With the Presidential election approaching candidates for the Whitehouse and the President himself want to prove that they love Israel more then their rivals and why Rick perry is wrong on the "heroes of Masada"... (More) Comments (0)

UK Unemployment Rises

As UK Unemployment rises and the governments hopes of a private sector led recovery aren't working was there an alternative to the governments cutbacks?... (More) Comments (0)

The west and Somali pirates

Western companies profiting from Somali piracy and navies who will not stop piracy but still claim 'success`... (More) Comments (0)

Twitter debate

A debate on twitter I've had with a pro Israel tweeter.... (More) Comments (0)

Britain in Afghanistan

British Defence secretary Liam Fox gives an unduly optimistic view of British progress in Afghanistan... (More) Comments (0)

British arms & the Libyan army

How in recent years the British Government has armed and trained the Libyan army.... (More) Comments (0)

The Somali Civil War

Since 2007 the fragile US & UN backed government in Somalia the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) has been involved in a civil war against the al-Shabab militia who want to impose an extreme form of sharia law on Somalia. ... (More) Comments (0)

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