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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

My Chicagoland Black Friday in words and pictures

Walmart stocks up on products manufactured under deadly sweatshop conditions. It organizes Black Friday sales knowing they can touch off riots in their stores. Then Walmart sends security guards and police after peaceful demonstrators who only seek justice in the global workplace. Who said irony is dead?... (More) Comments (0)

Unredacted version - Summers of Fear in America

This is an unredacted version of an article that I published on the Z Blog last year. ... (More) Comments (0)

Will worker justice take flight at Chicago airports?

A contract recently negotiated by UNITE-HERE Local 1 and signed by O’Hare concessionaire HMS Host is a godsend for airport workers because of its wage increases and better health insurance. ... (More) Comments (0)

Are fossil fuels halal?

Islamic ethics stresses avoiding harm to others, and putting public good before private gain. Since it's now indisputable that burning fossil fuels is causing climate change, and the biggest producers of fossil fuels are majority Muslim countries, it is surely of great interest to humanity what the Islamic ethical position is fossil fuels and climate change. ... (More) Comments (0)

Are fossil fuels halal?

Islamic ethics stresses avoiding harm to others, and putting public good before private gain. Since it's now indisputable that burning fossil fuels is causing climate change, and the biggest producers of fossil fuels are majority Muslim countries, it is surely of great interest to humanity what the Islamic ethical position is fossil fuels and climate change. ... (More) Comments (0)

Note to Mehdi Hasan re: Media Lens and Srebrenica

Note to Mehdi Hasan re: Media Lens and Srebrenica... (More) Comments (0)

The Guardian offers polite tactical advice to Netanyahu – unreserved condemnation for Assad

The Guardian offers polite tactical advice to Netanyahu – unreserved condemnation for Assad ... (More) Comments (0)

Why won’t the Eurozone disintegrate?

This is a contribution I made to the Real-World Economics Review Blog. http://rwer.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/why-wont-the-eurozone-disintegrate/ The blog is published by the recently founded World Economics Association (WEA).... (More) Comments (0)

Dark Side Dispatch

I spent early autumn on Greyhound, touring the U.S. to promote my memoir, A Rough Guide to the Dark Side, which recounts why I quit my job at The New York Times. Disillusioned by their pro-war propaganda, I tried to start a Balkan Summer of Love... with Belgrade gangsters.... (More) Comments (0)

Taxes,Patriotism & JK Rowling

British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond considers a "League of Patriotic Employers" for companies who employ army reservists. What is really needed is for companies to display their patriotism by paying their share of taxes as Harry Potter author JK Rowling does.... (More) Comments (0)

Demise of SuperPacs Exaggerated

Analysis of the impact of SuperPacs on Election 2012.... (More) Comments (0)

Another Week Under the Cosh

A diary covering the week in November when the latest round of austerity measures were passed by parliament in Athens.... (More) Comments (0)

The Long Con: Social Security and Medicare in the “Grand Bargain”

“Social Security and Medicare have absolutely nothing to do with the short-term U.S. fiscal problem.” And, no, not “long-term,” either, in any way that requires what’s being proposed. Please, read the article by William Lind, which contains the chart and quote linked above.... (More) Comments (0)

Don Moore 1942-2012: A lion who roared on behalf of public education

It’s easy to stereotype public policy wonks as data driven, numbers crunching, analytical geeks with horn-rimmed glasses and bad haircuts who provide the research for the real organizers who go out into the real world andmobilize for social change. Chicago’s Don Moore, who died last August, defied that misleading stereotype.... (More) Comments (0)

Strategic Considerations for Occupy

A sociological and political analysis of class relations in the United States that bears upon questions of strategy for the Occupy Movement.... (More) Comments (0)

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