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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

The Oil for Food Scandal

Long-time New York Times and Wall St Journal Middle East correspondent Youssef Ibrahim, who is quite knowledgeable, recently wrote that a large part of current revenues from oil are being siphoned off by the Allawi government and other Iraqi officials and... (More) Comments (5)

Turning Point?

Can anyone recall when the first time was that, after the Americans bombed and invaded a foreign country---even if, as we just saw with the case of Iraq in early June, they install a puppet regime which, in turn, invites them to stay on as the leaders of ... (More) Comments (0)

Governments of Confrontation

According to an Agence France Press report last week, the morning after Lebanon's long-serving Prime Minister Rafik Al-Hariri resigned his post---under an "ultimatum," AFP added, "from the speaker of parliament, Nabih Berri, either to accept [President] L... (More) Comments (0)

Beyond Demonstration Elections IV

Well. The "preliminary" results are in. And it's getting pretty close to official. With 22,413 polling stations reporting and 95.1 percent of the votes counted, "Afghan President Hamid Karzai is sure of victory in his country's historic presidential po... (More) Comments (0)

Six arrests made at CSIS...

Six people were arrested five days ago (Oct. 20) as the result of an important action / sit-in at the Toronto CSIS offices, officially titled the “Center for Strategic and International Studies”, but also known as “Canada's national spy agency”. Sponso... (More) Comments (2)

This Masquerade

On Wednesday, October 20, the long-serving Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafik Al-Hariri---one of the richest people in the world, and widely acclaimed as the man most responsible for lining up the capital to rebuild the central area of Beirut, devastated by... (More) Comments (0)

Patterns in the Rubble

According to Razing Rafah: Mass Home Demolitions in the Gaza Strip (October, 2004), a new Human Rights Watch report, the Israeli military demolished the single greatest number of Palestinian houses in the Rafah region in the southern Gaza Strip, just insi... (More) Comments (8)

Security Scholars for a War on Terror

Last week an antiwar news wire sent me "An Open Letter to the American People", by the Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy. After reading it I immediately wondered why this document was being circulated on antiwar lists, because, as it occurr... (More) Comments (6)

A Hall of Mirrors

I've always felt that a hall of mirrors is a wonderful metaphor for life in a hyper-reflected---if nowhere near as reflective---media age. Not because of some silly metaphysical-slash-ontological predicament the alleged affliction with which serves only ... (More) Comments (3)

Srebrenica and the Neocolonial Community

There have been three good reasons over the course of the past seven or eight days for the small city in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina named Srebrenica to have been reported in the world's news. (Leaving aside whatever other good reasons there may ha... (More) Comments (0)

If Only the World Had a Vote....

Writing on behalf of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and its contribution to this Friday's important ten-country survey, "What the World Thinks of America," Shmuel Rosner defined the two essential conditions behind the Israeli public's support for the curre... (More) Comments (0)

A Referendum on the Iraq Occupation

(from killingtrain.com) C. P. Pandya mentioned in the blog today about how mercenary companies are still making massive profits in Iraq. Bombings and massacres continue to happen on a daily basis in Iraq: today's by insurgents killed 4 American DynCorp ... (More) Comments (0)

A Referendum on the Iraq Occupation

(from killingtrain.com) C. P. Pandya mentioned in the blog today about how mercenary companies are still making massive profits in Iraq. Bombings and massacres continue to happen on a daily basis in Iraq: today's by insurgents killed 4 American DynCorp ... (More) Comments (0)

Beyond Demonstration Elections III

Just as there is a "standard set of cliches and patriotic symbols that are mobilized to justify U.S. intervention," Edward Herman and Frank Brodhead wrote 20 years ago in Demonstration Elections, so, too, there is a standard set of cliches and---if not qu... (More) Comments (0)

Beyond Demonstration Elections II

Are there any doubts that, some time around the end of this month (maybe a little later), after all of the ballots are transported to one of the eight counting centers around the country, and the final ballot tabulated---or, whether they are all sealed in... (More) Comments (0)

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