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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

Life After Capitalism Conference

Well, four more days to go before the Life After Capitalism conference being held in New York City, beginning this Friday and continuing throughout Saturday and Sunday. Myself and fellow Vancouver Parecon Collective member Matt Grinder will be attending ... (More) Comments (11)

Herd Mentality And the Market

In response to fellow bloggers Brian and Jessica, here is my take on what happened today. Hugo Chavez's victory eased the rising price of oil for two reasons. First, oil traders were worried that the referendum would result in widespread violence, which... (More) Comments (4)

Carter and Gaviria find find "NO EVIDENCE OF FRAUD"

Now it seems that it really is all over, save for some possibly tragic and desperate acts by the opposition. At a 1:30pm press conference at the Gran Melia hotel, Carter and Gaviria both affirmed that their analysis and results confirmed the preliminary ... (More) Comments (8)

Carter and Gaviria find find "NO EVIDENCE OF FRAUD"

Now it seems that it really is all over, save for some possibly tragic and desperate acts by the opposition. At a 1:30pm press conference at the Gran Melia hotel, Carter and Gaviria both affirmed that their analysis and results confirmed the preliminary ... (More) Comments (8)

The Irony of Venezuela's Victory

The irony of Sunday-into-Monday's victory of the "NOs" in Venezuela should not escape us. As President Hugo Chavez proclaims the (rightful) triumph of democracy over imperialism, and of economic justice over financial oligarchy, participants in U.S. stock... (More) Comments (11)

Parecon and Society: Pareconish Intellectual Agendas

Here is still another draft chapter for a new book about participatory economics and the rest of society that I am working on -- this one is for near the end of the book...and shorter than most. + New ideas have intellectual value largely revealed by ... (More) Comments (0)

Venezuela: Chavez wins, the opposition doesn´t respect the victory

President Carraquero of the National Electoral Council announced the preliminary result as of 3:47 am just now (4:10am) with between 94-96% of the results in. The result: 58% NO (4 991 483 million votes) and 42% SI (3 576 517 million votes). In other wo... (More) Comments (3)

Venezuela: Chavez wins, the opposition doesn´t respect the victory

President Carraquero of the National Electoral Council announced the preliminary result as of 3:47 am just now (4:10am) with between 94-96% of the results in. The result: 58% NO (4 991 483 million votes) and 42% SI (3 576 517 million votes). In other wo... (More) Comments (3)

VENEZUELA: The barrio at night

Take Two. The dreaded technical difficulties might be coming back. I went to the barrio of La Vega tonight, and just got back (it´s 12:45am on August 16 and the August 15 referendum has become the August 15/16 referendum). This will be the last bulleti... (More) Comments (0)

VENEZUELA: The barrio at night

Take Two. The dreaded technical difficulties might be coming back. I went to the barrio of La Vega tonight, and just got back (it´s 12:45am on August 16 and the August 15 referendum has become the August 15/16 referendum). This will be the last bulleti... (More) Comments (0)

Iraq, Civilian Fatalities, and American Power I

Ever since Ahmed Janabi's report first surfaced on english.aljazeera.net that an "Iraqi political group," indeed, an expatriate Iraqi political group based in Britain, contends reports that approximately "37,000 Iraqi civilians were killed between the sta... (More) Comments (3)

Venezuela: UK Independent and criminal reporting

Who needs the Venezuelan opposition to criminally announce the results of the referendum in advance when the international press can do so just as well? Even though the National Electoral Council has just announced (about 8:30pm) that polls will not be c... (More) Comments (5)

Venezuela: UK Independent and criminal reporting

Who needs the Venezuelan opposition to criminally announce the results of the referendum in advance when the international press can do so just as well? Even though the National Electoral Council has just announced (about 8:30pm) that polls will not be c... (More) Comments (5)

The violence begins...

Thee was a great deal of advance warning that the opposition would commit violence as a last resort if it looked like it was losing. That has happened, it seems. The EFE news agency is reporting that 12 people have been wounded and at least 1 killed at ... (More) Comments (0)

The violence begins...

Thee was a great deal of advance warning that the opposition would commit violence as a last resort if it looked like it was losing. That has happened, it seems. The EFE news agency is reporting that 12 people have been wounded and at least 1 killed at ... (More) Comments (0)

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