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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

SOPA

Don't hop in bed with an enemy that happens to take your side - for its own reasons.... (More) Comments (6)

BREAKING: Keystone XL Denied!

In case you haven’t heard the thunderous celebration by the North American climate movement, today the State Dept is set to outright reject the Keystone XL pipeline. ... (More) Comments (0)

On Exceptionalism and Deviance

The relationship between exceptionalism and deviance and how they can be the same. ... (More) Comments (0)

What Next for the Arab Spring?

After the destructive wars of 2011, the year 2012 awaits foreboding developments the world would be better off without. ... (More) Comments (0)

Secrets of Empire And Self-Deceptions Of Partisans

An essay on the nature of identity, personal and political, authentic or dubious. Excerpt: Rupaul (Andre Charles) averred, "We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.” We all make choices as to what form of drag we practice. Does my lie promote the truth? Is my act educational, entertaining or edifying? Does it allow me to inhabit my true self yet transcend my narcissism? Does my act and attendant actions bring balm or does it deliver more suffering than necessary to a world where it is impossible to escape suffering? Ask yourself and those around you these questions in regard to Private Manning and the operatives and denizens of U.S. Empire. On the subject of identity, authentic or dubious: Even after being an almost constant public presence for more than half a decade, Barack Obama's true nature and authentic identity remains elusive. After all this time, he still seems less man than marketing rollout, less of a political leader than an object lesson in product placement. The situation is like having the role of chief executive of the nation filled with a disposable razor or a heavily hyped iPhone application. ... (More) Comments (0)

Map of military projections

Link to a map of the US military's "reach" around the world.... (More) Comments (0)

Election Madness

The hardest part about enduring election cycles as someone who sees them as rather unimportant and distracting from real issues and solutions is constantly having to answer, "What is the alternative?" It is frustrating beyond belief that it is not blatantly visible. But that's life. Something could be right in front of you and you cannot even see it.... (More) Comments (0)

Challenging Stiglitz

Joseph Stiglitz' analysis of the current economic situation is horribly insufficient.... (More) Comments (2)

2011 and Optimism

If the past year has brought an intensification of the problems facing humanity, it has also sent a message about the courage, creativity, and resiliency of human beings. If there is any hope for the future, it lies in the protesters of 2011.... (More) Comments (0)

Anarchism?!

An essay for publication in Turkey - on Anarchism.... (More) Comments (0)

‘Occupy’ Materialism

Despite the rhetoric of ideologues like Slavoj Žižek, an approach that looks beyond capitalism as the root of all evil will be key to the success of Occupy. Economics is my specialty, but even I recognize it’s not the whole game.... (More) Comments (3)

Great song with Wonderful Grapics

This will lift your spirits!... (More) Comments (0)

Thoughts on "labor imperialism"

Talks about relationship between AFL-CIO's labor imperialism and its lack of involvement in progressive social struggles in the US over past 30 years. ... (More) Comments (0)

Lost Verities and Dirty Hippies

Because the vast majority of the populace are deemed “losers,” due to how the system is rigged, techniques must be created and maintained to displace the rage, born of a sense of powerlessness, that grips the system’s exploited underlings. OWS is beginning to change the narrative … align it with reality – and that is an alarming development for the 1 percent; hence, the retooled, amped-up propaganda campaign we’re seeing signs of at present. This is the reality the 1 percent endeavor to obscure: Capitalism is a pyramid scheme; by its very structure, only a few will ever receive its bounty … that is wrung out of the exhausted hides of the vast majority. Fact is, capitalism, the neoliberal variety or otherwise, has never worked as promised; its innate structure ensures exploitation and inequity. ... (More) Comments (0)

Occupy! Connect! Create! (pt.7)

Occupy Strategy!: The final part of a 7-part series exploring new 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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