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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

Michigan's Global Importance

Reason's for thinking about Michigan. Also includes an introduction to the series of upcoming posts. How focusing attention on Harbor Shores provides the opportunity to ignite a much larger social movement. ... (More) Comments (0)

11/1/07

Twisted confusion, inside out.... (More) Comments (4)

Blog Test

Blog Testing... (More) Comments (0)

Barack to the Future nf Offf-shorng?

Analyzing Obama's contradictory statements on off-shoring US jobs... (More) Comments (0)

Reason, Emotion, & Relation

Thoughts on some philosophical questions.... (More) Comments (2)

What is your Man Factor?

What does "The Man" mean today?... (More) Comments (2)

A few days in Lebanon!

Impressions from a recent trip to Lebanon.... (More) Comments (2)

Being nice helps

Thoughts on speaking with the public during activism.... (More) Comments (10)

Left Ideology

The left of the 1920's had an ideology basically opposite from todays ideology. The New Left is not an improvement. In fact it is a retrograde ideology.... (More) Comments (3)

Modest Proposals

What is the logic of a privatized world? How for can it go? This set of modest proposals viewed the profit opportunities from the vantage point of 1995. So far, it's still a work in progress.... (More) Comments (2)

The British in Basra

What the Iraqis think about the British troops in Basra, and what our leaders told us they would think. ... (More) Comments (0)

From the Blog Marx and Coca-Cola

Ron Paul and Race: From the blog Marx and Coca-Cola ... (More) Comments (4)

Clinton vs. Romney

Everybody thinks they’ve heard the Presidential candidates say nothing in the debates. But now, for the first time ever, a debate in which the point is to present them saying nothing. Literally. Senator Hillary Clinton and Gov. Mitt Romney face off.... (More) Comments (2)

Rockwell makes some stupid comments about Chomsky

Noam Chomsky and Lew Rockwell and being a little wary about these anti-war right wing libertarians ... (More) Comments (3)

Economics

A proposal for four strategic economic reforms: 1) Universal Secondary Education, 2)Global Unionization, 3) Universal Healthcare, and 4) Universal Guaranteed Income.... (More) Comments (0)

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