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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 Sustainers Blogs

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)

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)

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)

Talking Points: Farm Subsidies 2012

The Farm Bill is being written right now. The biggest issues of economic justice are those of the Commodity Title. This blog contains some key talking points to address the biggest issues and most common misunderstandings of the farm bill.... (More) Comments (0)

How can we learn to care...?

It is impossible to care about the world until we can actually begin to "feel" the experience of others and understand our own present insensibilities.... (More) Comments (0)

How can we learn to care...?

It is impossible to care about the world until we can actually begin to "feel" the experience of others and understand our own present insensibilities.... (More) Comments (0)

Sacrificing safety at nation's #1 first

ExxonMobil, with all its massive resources, is unwilling to allow a safety provision to be implmented at a major refinery in Baton Rouge.... (More) Comments (0)

Revenue Insurance: 2012 Farm Bill

Revenue Insurance was included in the 2008 Farm Bill in a major way, in the ACRE Program and also in SURE. Now, as the 2012 Farm Bill is being debated and introduced into Congress, Revenue Insurance represents the main direction of further change to farm subsidy programs (in the Commodity Title of the Farm Bill). The "Primer" here is a collection of online articles that explain what's happening in a consistent way, that show some of who's doing what, and that provide a deeper, historical context for understanding this, the biggest issue in the 2012 Farm Bill.... (More) Comments (0)

Factsheet: Key 2012 Farm Bill Proposals

The biggest issues in the US farm bill, both domestically and globally, are those of the Commodity Title. Historically these are multitrillion dollar market management issues, hugely affecting sustainability, (crop rotations,) farm income, food prices, rural development, research, There are 3 key proposals available for farm and food justice advocacy. These are the Food from Family Farms Act of the National Family Farm Coalition, the Farmer Owned Reserve proposal of the National Farmers Union, and NFFC's bill to end the devastating dairy crisis. These proposals go far beyond trendy alternatives, such as subsidy caps and other subsidy reforms, which do not address the underlying problems.... (More) Comments (0)

Primer: 2012 Farm Bill

The biggest issues in the US farm bill, both domestically and globally, are those of the Commodity Title. Historically these are multitrillion dollar market management issues, hugely affecting sustainability, (crop rotations,) farm income, food prices, rural development, research, There are 3 key proposals available for farm and food justice advocacy. These are the Food from Family Farms Act of the National Family Farm Coalition, the Farmer Owned Reserve proposal of the National Farmers Union, and NFFC's bill to end the devastating dairy crisis. These proposals go far beyond trendy alternatives, such as subsidy caps and other subsidy reforms, which do not address the underlying problems.... (More) Comments (0)

Greek Election May 6th

The general election as seen from Samos and more on the state's attack on refugees and migrant workers in Athens.... (More) Comments (0)

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