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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

May Day 2011

This year May Day promises to be a true international festival thanks to the historic 2011 Arab Spring, which has re-awakened revolutionary hopes across North Africa and the Middle East, inspiring new resistance among the embattled workers of the US and Europe across the seas. The marches and rallies planned in Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Baharein, Yemen and elsewhere will be a massive demonstration of the new democratic forces who have shaken longstanding reactionary dictatorships to their foundations, spreading panic among the leaders of Western imperialism who support them. ... (More) Comments (2)

Uploading Book reviews

Anyone else having difficulties uploading book reviews?... (More) Comments (5)

An Organization for the Future?

Building a new organization...... (More) Comments (13)

Poll Thoughts

Early returns, and worries...... (More) Comments (69)

A New Organization?

Take the poll...and pursue the issues...... (More) Comments (2)

The Tea Party vs. The Left

A friend of mine just sent me a Fox News Poll that was conducted immediately before the March 19 start of the U.S. war on Libya. ... (More) Comments (2)

Libya: Who’s Side Are We On?

As a lifelong Marxist and non-violent revolutionary, I do not of course 'support' the US-NATO hypocritical intervention in Libya -- as if these war-mongering imperialist governments wanted or needed my support! On the other hand, there are realities that the Left seems to ignore. . .... (More) Comments (4)

Obama the Counter-Revolutionary

President Obama's November 2008 victory was an event not short of a popular revolution, but he now presides over a counterrevolution. ... (More) Comments (4)

More Elementary Thoughts on Libya

Michael: I believe that your " Very Elementary Thoughts on Thinking about Now" (March 22) had already been overtaken by events before you ever posted the piece. ... (More) Comments (5)

A New Challenge to the Left on Libya

I am revising my challenge to the Left on Libya because apparently a number of things I had written had either been misinterpreted, or I am making some modifications myself. ... (More) Comments (2)

Libya?

Responses to the unfolding situation in LibyaSome... (More) Comments (35)

Email exchange with the BBC's Mark Mardell

Email exchange with the BBC's Mark Mardell about US military aid to Egypt... (More) Comments (0)

Challenging the Left on Libya

It is upsetting to see so many leftists calling for intervention, or a No-fly Zone in Libya, or romanticizing the rebellion to the point of delusion leaving reality unrecognizable.... (More) Comments (5)

Grace Petrie album review

Grace Petrie album review... (More) Comments (0)

NYT Goes Dark Ages

The Paper of Record manages to elicit sympathy for gang rapists and cast aspersions on the 11-year-old survivor.... (More) Comments (2)

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