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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.

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Routes To Economic Vision: Classism

By Michael Albert at Mar 10, 2004

Historically, a frequent route to trying to describe a better society is to demand classlessness. Classes are groups who share sufficient conditions and circumstances due to their economic position that they have broadly similar interests and motives, w... (More) Comments (0)

Korean Parecon

By Michael Albert at Mar 10, 2004

Yesterday I received in the mail the Korean edition of the book Parecon: Life After Capitalism. It is very elegant looking, but of course I couldn't read a word. If there is anyone out there from Korea who gets a copy of the book and reads through it, I w... (More) Comments (2)

Routes to Economic Vision: Criminality

By Michael Albert at Mar 10, 2004

Economies can have theft, fraud, etc. What would it mean to say we would like to have an economy that minimizes the likelihood of such occurrences? Well, the first possible meaning might be that we want an economy that has the death penalty for theft, a... (More) Comments (0)

Advocating Parecon: An Organization

By Michael Albert at Mar 10, 2004

What about creating an organization of pareconists, so to speak? I don't know whether this would be positive if it were it to grow to considerable size, nor even whether it would grow at all, for that matter. So this is an idea that pounds away in my mind... (More) Comments (0)

Introducing Parecon

By Michael Albert at Mar 10, 2004

It has quickly become clear that this blog needs some introduction to participatory economics...as well as including an accumulating array of posts that more or less presume at least modest familiarity. The following essay was written as the first piece ... (More) Comments (0)

Advocating Parecon: Promotion

By Michael Albert at Mar 10, 2004

One possible topic for a parecon blog is how to best advocate participatory economics and what experiences we have and lessons we learn in doing so. My own efforts at advocating parecon have been only modestly successful. They involve ... My own efforts... (More) Comments (0)

Routes to Economic Vision: Alienation

By Michael Albert at Mar 10, 2004

Decades ago I came across a compelling definition of alienation, a concept not so easy to pin down even for those who use the word a lot. After all, how do you simultaneously capture psychological, sociological, economic, and other connotations? I think ... (More) Comments (0)

Routes to Economic Vision: Exploitation

By Michael Albert at Mar 10, 2004

By being exploitative we generally mean a condition in which some person or agency gets from our labors more than they ought to which in turn leaves us less than we deserve. Some own many mansions. Others live in cardboard shelters under bridges. Some ear... (More) Comments (2)

Routes To Economic Vision: Introduction

By Michael Albert at Mar 10, 2004

In advocating participatory economics, I invariably follow a particular and for me familiar logic that moves from preferred values to desirable institutions. This blog is for exploring, so here I'd like to try to come at economic vision from different a... (More) Comments (0)

Welcome to Goodbye Maggie

By Michael Albert at Mar 10, 2004

This blog is for discussing economic vision, and particularly participatory economics. In deciding to set up some blogs within the rubric of ZNet, a little research suggested that titles should be creative. However, it is hard to do a creative title for... (More) Comments (0)

Mahajan's Addition

By Noam Chomsky at Mar 10, 2004

In his blog, linked from the ZNet blogs, Rahul Mahajan of Empire Notes writes: In Chomsky's latest post, he's responding to someone advancing the standard humanitarian/liberation argument for the war on Iraq. At one point, he says The invasion of Iraq b... (More) Comments (2)

Mideast Solutions

By Noam Chomsky at Mar 10, 2004

[This is the first question and answer in a lengthy interview conducted by Justin Podur and Stephen Shalom -- it will appear in the May issue of Z] 1. What do you see as the best solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict? It depends what time frame we ... (More) Comments (0)

The Invasion of Iraq

By Noam Chomsky at Mar 10, 2004

All opponents of the invasion of Iraq -- at least, all those who bothered to think the matter through -- took for granted that there would be beneficial effects, as is often the case with military interventions: the bombing of Pearl Harbor, for example, w... (More) Comments (0)

Monbiot's Concerns

By Noam Chomsky at Mar 10, 2004

Monbiot radically misinterprets the Hippocratic principle, "First, do no harm." According to Monbiot's interpretation, a doctor violates the Hippocratic oath by giving someone an injection, because the puncture harms the skin. No one has ever interprete... (More) Comments (0)

Electoral Realities

By Noam Chomsky at Mar 10, 2004

About half the population doesn't bother to vote. The voters are heavily skewed towards the wealthy and privileged, who tend to vote for the more reactionary of the two factions of the business party. That's of course not enough for the Republicans to o... (More) Comments (2)

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