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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

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)

George Monbiot's "Abject Apology to Lord McAlpine"

George Monbiot's "Abject Apology to Lord McAlpine"... (More) Comments (0)

Election Choices: What to Do Instead

Having made the case against voting for Obama in a previous post, it’s only fair for me to suggest the alternative. I value the right to vote as fundamental. I have seen how people who don’t have that right fight for it, and how people who get it for the first time eagerly embrace it, and go to extraordinary lengths to use it. ... (More) Comments (0)

Kurdish Prisoners in Mass Hunger Strike

This article is on the mass hunger strike of Kurdish political prisonners in Turkey who are in their 55th day now...... (More) Comments (0)

A US Election Day Parable

A US Election Day Parable... (More) Comments (0)

FIAT: poteva andare peggio

Short stories about Italy (italian version)... (More) Comments (0)

Stop&Frisk

Protesters of the controversial and unconstitutional NYPD practice of Stop and Frisk are currently on trial in Queens.... (More) Comments (0)

Ambelos and Austerity

The Samos Diary attempts to explore, record and provide witness to the impact of austerity on the daily life of Samos Island, Greece. This entry looks at what is happening to the mountain village of Ambelos.... (More) Comments (0)

What Obama Needs to Win

Thomas Frank outlines the Right's driving narrative on "makers" ("job creators" and "takers" (those who utilize government programs to which they are entitled.) This narrative, plus weaknesses in the Democratic appeal, account for the surprisingly-strong challenge of plutocrats Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.... (More) Comments (0)

Useful: Flawed Food Score Card

Food Policy Action's "Food Policy Scorecard" is a helpful tool for informing voters of how to vote. I'm glad to see it come out prior to the election. On the other hand, it contains major flaws, the same ones that are widespread in the Food Movement. My bottom line: The Democrats are much better at supporting consumers instead of corporations on a range of issues, as the Scorecard shows, but the ratings given should be drastically lowered, as the Democrats now advocate much like the Republicans on the biggest issues, those most important to family farmers. Historically the Democrats were much better on these issues, and stood out from the Republicans much more.... (More) Comments (0)

Citizens United is Now

How big money generated by the Citizens United decision is negatively impacting elections.... (More) Comments (0)

Note to Monbiot about his open Letter to Media Lens

Note to Monbiot about his open Letter to Media Lens... (More) Comments (0)

Election Choices: Obama or Not?

We’re up against it now. Less than two weeks left. Those on the left confront their quadrennial quandary, and the inescapable debate: to vote for the Democratic presidential nominee or not. ... (More) Comments (0)

Educational apartheid in Chicago and the black teachers revolt of the 1960's

Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) organizer Brandon Johnson, who is a black man, recently spoke about a conversation he had with veteran black educator Dr. Grady Jordan about racism in the schools today. Jordan told him, “Black teachers fought hard. This is a direct retaliation to what we built in the 60's and 70's. They're trying to kill you, son. What are you going to do about it?”.... (More) Comments (0)

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