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Blogs are a familiar feature on the internet - where users post content in an accumluating manner, with comments, and search options, etc.

Our blogs are quite powerful. Each writer can post, as is typically the case. Sustainers who have the option can also post, however. Blogs appear in the blog system, and sometimes also on the top page of ZNet - 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 as well as 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. All this is easily done using the left menu. Searches allow even more variables and refinements. 

IF you are a Sustainer with permission, and are logged in, you will also see a link in the left menu for you to post a blog - and you can use that to post one, and tag it various ways, and once you do, it is in the system with you are 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.

Soon there will be another dimension to our blog system. We will have group pages, or you might call them network pages. These will be like ZSpace pages, but for whole groups. The moderator of a group will be able to control the content boxes and menus on the page. The group will have its own group blog as well. This will have other features too, to be seen soon!

Meanwhile, enjoy the blogs - and, by the way, if you have a ZSpace page, of course you can put one or more content boxes on it, pulling blog links of any sort you may want, for example, by topic, by certain people, about places, etc.

Blogs

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Brian Dominick's Blog

Web Address: http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/briandominick
Bio: . Brian now teaches several courses at ZMI each year. (More)

All Dominick Blogs

Anti-Jews on the Left

My concerns about anti-Jewish sentiment on the U.S. Left are bolstered by Internet wingnuts intent on slamming Jews in to bolster arguments against Israel.... (More) Comments (9)

Target the Dems!

The Democrats are set to take progressives and radicals for granted again while lunging toward the so-called "center" -- we shouldn't stand for it.... (More) Comments (15)

NPR Sounds Terror Alarm

As if to exemplify what's wrong with public media, National Public Radio rides the terror-scare bandwagon into its upcoming fundraising.... (More) Comments (2)

LA Times Errs on 'Errant' Airstrike

It takes a special kind of "journalist" to barely note the US tried to keep quiet an airstrike that killed 9 allies and civilians, all while doing your best to help soften the story.... (More) Comments (2)

Reuters on Turkey-Kurdistan

How to distort complicated context to bolster a Western perspective.... (More) Comments (0)

Media on Missile 'Defense'

The major media swallow government lies that NMD is a "defensive" program and Russia has nothing to fear.... (More) Comments (3)

Media Cherry Picks Iraq Story

On yesterday's car bombing, CNN defers to US sources when convenient while the AP interprets the tragedy as evidence of US success.... (More) Comments (0)

The New ZNet

Checking out the new ZNet... (More) Comments (8)

They Call this Journalism

This lead from a recent Associated Press story jolted me out of my blogging hiatus. I just had to share it with you all (I'm tacking on the second sentence just because it's also a gem): Iraqi lawmakers adjourned in protest Tuesday and demanded an ap... (More) Comments (17)

This is Not Fox News, Folks

It is very unfortunate that some people seem intent on dragging the level of debate in these discussions of gender, pornography, etc, down to new lows. Many people on one side of this discussion seem to be making a mission out of trying to bait the other ... (More) Comments (20)

Blog Comments vs. Discussion Forums

After following some of the very heated "threads" of comments on Lucinda Marshall's recent posts have prompted me to write this special post about the use of weblog comments. To date, I have already warned two users to cease using what I perceived to be a... (More) Comments (22)

Ah, (Western) Objectivity

Ran across this gem on the CNN site in my daily readings: In addition to their Western look and feel, [Iraqi campaign ads] carry Western messages such as freedom, tolerance and inclusion. That must be what they mean by a "moral compass."... (More) Comments (3)

What to do with the Democratic Party?

Jessica Azulay and I received a fairly substantial response to our recent essay, which was mostly a strategic presentation of what the hell progressives and radicals should do to make a difference in the coming years, starting with a major dose of facing ... (More) Comments (8)

Mediocrity on the Left

Perhaps the only thing more disappointing than watching liberals sell themselves short and shoot themselves in the proverbial feet is watching self-proclaimed leftists do the same thing. The once-promising United for Peace and Justice organization, headed... (More) Comments (0)

Liberals and Mediocrity (or, "Anybody But Kerry")

It's sort of amazing, if you think about it. One could hardly dream up an incumbent president who would be easier to defeat than George W. Bush, and yet the Democratic Party is getting a run for it's money because it chose one of the least inspiring, medi... (More) Comments (4)