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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 Blogs

False Dawn

To say that I am impressed by how impressed the Americans are, not only with their ability to kill Iraqis, but their ability to get away with it, too, would be an understatement. At this art---two arts, really---two distinct but nonetheless inseparable a... (More) Comments (3)

What to do with the Democratic Party?

Jessica Azulay and I received a fairly substantial response to our recent essay, which was mostly a strategic presentation of what the hell progressives and radicals should do to make a difference in the coming years, starting with a major dose of facing ... (More) Comments (8)

Like Flies to Wanton Boys

I can't tell you the precise content of the UN Secretary-General's October 31 letter to the American President, the British Prime Minister, and the Iraqi Interim Prime Minister, addressing the American-led assault on the besieged city of Fallujah. (Thoug... (More) Comments (4)

The Question of Palestine, November 13, 1974

* "Question of Palestine," Yasser Arafat, UN General Assembly Plenary, November 13, 1974 (A/PV.2282 and Corr.1) FYA ("For your archives"): For those of you who, for whatever reason, can't open the document via the weblinks I've provided, here is the text... (More) Comments (4)

Holy Rollers

"There are many issues that seriously and sometimes narrowly divide the country, but same sex marriage is not one of them," one of America's Holy Rollers said in explanation of Tuesday's elections. “The upsets in the Senate and House races and the 11 mar... (More) Comments (6)

So, um, what now?

I mostly wrote that "morning after" piece of yesterday because I was surfing around the morning after, going to all my usual sites and blogs, and nobody had written anything. So I forced myself to write something, because I thought of all the people like ... (More) Comments (5)

So, um, what now?

I mostly wrote that "morning after" piece of yesterday because I was surfing around the morning after, going to all my usual sites and blogs, and nobody had written anything. So I forced myself to write something, because I thought of all the people like ... (More) Comments (5)

The Great American Genitals Caper

If you happen to live in the State of Ohio---and just to be clear, I mean 'state' in the sense of a sovereign political entity, not state in the sense of a condition or mode of being-in-the-world---then come the New Year, you will live in a State wherein:... (More) Comments (24)

The morning after

Seems like it's basically over. The last time I spent a late night biting my nails watching an election, I was in Venezuela observing the referendum. Like the US elections of November 2, the outcome was important not only to the people who voted, but to ... (More) Comments (21)

The morning after

Seems like it's basically over. The last time I spent a late night biting my nails watching an election, I was in Venezuela observing the referendum. Like the US elections of November 2, the outcome was important not only to the people who voted, but to ... (More) Comments (21)

Strange Logic

Friday's New York Times devoted all of 92 words to the story. In what other fragmentary U.S. print daily reports I've been able to find on the same event, the Orange County Register spent all of 27 words (out of an article 450-words-long). The St. Louis... (More) Comments (0)

Petition to the U.S. to "Stop the Escalation!"

On behalf of one from among a growing number of open letters invoking the conscience of humanity to call upon the American state to cease immediately its plans to launch a full-scale military assault on the overwhelmingly civilian population trapped withi... (More) Comments (3)

Doppelgänger

Not sure whether the Democratic challenger was in Ohio that day, and the Republican incumbent in Florida. Or the Republican in Ohio and the Democrat in Florida. But, no matter. When news of the latest videotaped communiqué from Osama bin Laden first be... (More) Comments (3)

Anatomy of a Canadian Behemoth: pt. 2 (Raising the Social Cost)

On September 8th I published a piece titled “Canadian Bullets, Dead Iraqis”. The peice outlined SNC TEC's (a subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin) involvement in General Dynamics multinational consortium to produce bullets used by US occupation forces in Iraq and A... (More) Comments (0)

Iraq, Civilian Fatalities---and American Silence

In one of the handful or two of reports to have appeared on American television, in this instance, the prestigious Cable News Network (CNN), the program's host, Wolf Blitzer, introduced the item as a part of his "quick check of other stories now in the ne... (More) Comments (10)

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