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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.

Blogs

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Milan Rai's Blog

Web Address: http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/milanrai
Bio: Milan Rai, the anti-war activist, author and editor based in Hastings, England, first became politically active in the campaign against Pershing II and Ground-Launched Cruise Missiles - nuclear wea... (More)

All Rai Blogs

My Resoc Interview

Milan Rai's Resoc Interview... (More) Comments (2)

"Radical Tactics"

A discussion of peace movement organizing starting with some observations by Dan Clawson on the differences between trade unions and post-1960s social movements. The need to put economic conversion of military industry to socially-useful purposes at the c... (More) Comments (2)

Peace Movement

A paper written for a gathering of British peace activists, discussing the recent history of the peace movement and some pointers towards what could help a radical peace movement to grow.... (More) Comments (3)

Climate Camp

This week the third annual Camp for Climate Action is taking place in southern England. 2,000 activists are expected to attend, camping in a field near Kingsnorth coal power station in Kent, 30 miles east of London, to attend workshops, camp in self-manag... (More) Comments (0)

After the march

How the march yesterday in London seemed to me - and what we achieved in 2003.... (More) Comments (3)

Strategy for bombers

Reflections on a talk by US author and activist Peter Gelderloos on 'How Nonviolence Protects The State' (South End Press, Boston) at the Cowley Club, Brighton, on Friday 1 February 2008.... (More) Comments (2)

Strategy for Children

Thoughts on strategy occasioned by running a short course on strategy for a group of home-educated children.... (More) Comments (2)