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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

If Joe can embrace his Code Pink…

The ethics and legacy of Obama's drone kills.... (More) Comments (0)

Election Boycott featured in Boston Occupier

An interview by Joe Ramsey of The Boston Occupier was conducted with Election Boycott Activists Mark E. Smith and Terri Lee of the Boycott Election 2012 campaign.... (More) Comments (0)

No-Win Situation

In tonight's "foreign policy" debate, the presidential candidates will compete to see who can pander to Israel more shamelessly.... (More) Comments (0)

Elections are a Most Unpleasant Topic

In the midst of much vitriol over voting for president and other offices, let us please calm down and consider a few things. ... (More) Comments (0)

Racism & European football

Despite racist abuse of England footballers tackling racism is not a priority for UEFA the governing body of European football.... (More) Comments (2)

Amnesty International workers strike in offices round the world

Amnesty International workers strike in offices round the world... (More) Comments (0)

Act of Terrible

Today, self-identified liberals and progressives are all a-twitter and high-fivin’ each other because in yesterday’s debate their guy “proved” that he actually and immediately did use, and does embrace, the term “act of terror” to describe the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. Thus have Obama, and, following him, the bulk of the liberal caste, demonstrated their complete acceptance of the vapid, self-serving, hypocritical, obfuscatory, and dangerous language of “terror” as a touchstone of foreign policy credibility. ... (More) Comments (0)

GOP governor thrusts crisis onto city, Dem mayor capitulates

Pennsylvania faces huge set of crises--exemplified by Scranton trying to impose minimum wage on all city workers-- brought on by corporate tax breaks and GOP push for "fracking" that will result in enormous waste of tax revenues fueling an environmental disaster... (More) Comments (0)

Profits-first mentality puts US workers last

The move of Sensata to China shows the essence of the Bain profits-first mentality.... (More) Comments (0)

Concrete help for working poor, but where is Obama's advocacy?

Appeasing corporate donors on minimum wage is guaranteed to deepen the alienation of the Democratic base... (More) Comments (0)

Profiting from exploiting students

A major scandal fueled by federal funds, leaving victimized students with huge debt burdens and bleak prospects... (More) Comments (0)

Leading elements of the Dems not committed to US industrial base

Leading elements of the Democratic Party are simply not committed to US manufacturing, despite hollow rhetoric about "insourcing." They envision an economy further centered on an over-grown financial sector, with wages and benefits and political power of the vast majority to be further diminished.... (More) Comments (0)

Closer scrutiny needed for Dems on loyalty to vast majority

Strong rhetoric on economic justice has flimsy foundations... (More) Comments (0)

Republican Arithmetrick

In other words, Romney and Ryan are happy to tell you in detail about all the money you’ll save in taxes, but want to insist that it’s impossible to say anything specific about the hits you’ll be taking from spending cuts.... (More) Comments (0)

Carrying on the struggle

Thousands come together to continue the struggle for workers rights and justice... (More) Comments (0)

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