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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

No School[,] But Learning

This is a blog post from my continuing summer series "Dispatches from Maple Spring"... (More) Comments (0)

The (Street) Art of Stirring Things Up

This is a blog post from my continuing Summer Series "Dispatches from Maple Spring"... (More) Comments (0)

In Ohio, the People Push Back on Fracking

Tired of waiting for their leaders to ban the destructive drilling practice, citizens passed their own resolution—and took over the Statehouse to make it heard.... (More) Comments (2)

Even Rebels Need to Rest

This is a blog post in my continuing summer series "Dispatches from Maple Spring"... (More) Comments (0)

Repeat Performace...

Another go round...... (More) Comments (2)

"Queer & Feminista! Anticapitalista!"

This is a blog post in my continuing summer series "Dispatches from Maple Spring"... (More) Comments (0)

Finkelstein: What Gandhi Says

Review of Norman Finkelstein's latest book, What Gandhi Says About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage.... (More) Comments (5)

Egad

How bad is current popular consciousness - and where does the fault lie.... (More) Comments (7)

What's Changed in Egypt?

Analyses Egyptian politics in advance of the final round of the presidential election. ... (More) Comments (2)

Wisconsin Reconsidered:

Talks about the failure of business unionism in the US.... (More) Comments (2)

Venezuela: A Hopeful Place

I focus here on the changes in Venezuela since my last extended trip there in 2009 which I wrote about for Znet. Base don this trip, I conclude that most people's lives are improving there, that Venezuela deserves our critical support but that there has been little progress towards participatory socialism in the last three years. ... (More) Comments (2)

Something about George Monbiot

About George Monbiot’s “My fight may be hopeless, but it is as necessary as ever” (The Guardian, May 22), here is one important rejoinder which I’ve been meaning to take-up since the commentary first appeared, but am just getting around to now.... (More) Comments (0)

Monbiot pulls a Hitchens

There is just something about British left intellectuals. Christopher Hitchens fell from grace when he allowed his atheism to become a tool for Western imperialism. Now The Guardian UK's George Monbiot has pulled a Hitchens by allowing his outrage of "genocide" to become a tool for Western imperialism. ... (More) Comments (4)

The Market and the Common Good

The tension between the market and the common as exposed by Eduardo Saverins decision to renounce his US citizenship.... (More) Comments (0)

Vets Radio Show--

Discusses an innovative radio show that interviews movement activists and intellectuals from around the world, while featuring veterans issues.... (More) Comments (0)

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