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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 Writers Blogs

Jaws of Victory

Only the Left could see a video showing victory as an example of defeat.... (More) Comments (8)

Occupy! Connect! Create! (Pt.5)

Beyond 'The Market' and 'The State': Part five of a 7-part series exploring alternative ways that the Occupy Movement can engage with questions of "the economy" and with our strategies for moving toward long-term transformative organizing....... (More) Comments (2)

NYT and OWS

Unprovoked police violence against Occupy protesters is consigned to Orwell's "memory hole" by New York Times coverage of the Nov. 15th raid of Zuccotti Park.... (More) Comments (2)

Frank Miller on Occupy

As a fan of Frank Miller's Sin City and Dark Knight comics, it was a punch in the gut to read his recent diatribe against the Occupy movents. I am referring to his blog piece "ANARCHY."... (More) Comments (0)

Occupy! Connect! Create! (pt.4)

"From Economy/Nature to a Community of Life": Part four of a 7-part series...... (More) Comments (0)

Summarizing Parecon

A very brief summary of Parecon's features... (More) Comments (6)

Demands?

Occupy Demands - yes? no?... (More) Comments (0)

ICTR is political, not judicial

Even though the international jurist, Richard Goldstone, has said the 1994 assassination of Rwandan President Habyarimana was "clearly related to the genocide" the role of Paul Kagame's Rwandan Patrtiotic Front (RPF) in carrying out the attack has often been played down. Now a former aid to Kagame, Théogène Rudasingwa, is "demanding" that he get to testify to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on knowledge he has about "the most pivotal event in the 20th century whose consequences remain tragic almost two decades later.” Rudasingwa, the former Secretary General of the RPF says Kagame personally admitted to the assassination.... (More) Comments (2)

Liberating Possibilities

After articulating the relevance of longstanding economic and political crises to Americans’ everyday lives, the Occupy Wall Street movement must now make itself relevant to those same lives. Will the next phase be a dual-power movement?... (More) Comments (0)

Occupy! Connect! Create! (pt.3)

"From Economy to Diverse Livelihoods": Part three of a 7-part series exploring alternative ways that the Occupy Movement can engage with questions of "the economy" and with our strategies for moving toward long-term transformative organizing.... (More) Comments (0)

Beauties: Small vs. Big

Examining the productivity and stability offered by economies of scale and contrasting how market capitalism and participatory economics handle matters of scale.... (More) Comments (0)

US and Iraqi Democracy

US government efforts to extend the Iraq occupation and its anguished reaction to the Iraqi refusal say much about US opposition to democracy in the region.... (More) Comments (0)

Quick Thoughts on Greek Tragedies

The Greek economy and society have been unraveling for well over three years now under the weight of the Great Recession... (More) Comments (0)

US-Colombia FTA

The recent mainstream debate over the free-trade agreements conveys a simple message: some people matter, most people don't.... (More) Comments (0)

Occupy! Connect! Create! (pt.2)

Part two of a 7-part series of writings exploring alternative ways that the Occupy Movement can engage with questions of "the economy" and with our strategies for moving toward long-term transformative organizing. ... (More) Comments (0)

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