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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

Eid-e Shoma Mobarak

In what has become an annual ritual the White House has issued a video greeting to the people of Iran on the occasion of Navruz. This posting argues that the time has come to dispense with this hypocritical practice.... (More) Comments (0)

CMM Alert: A Classic Case of Projection: The Autocratic Press Denounces Hugo Chavez

CMM Alert: A Classic Case of Projection: The Autocratic Press Denounces Hugo Chavez ... (More) Comments (0)

Greek Interview

An email interview for Greek distribution... (More) Comments (0)

Brief reply to Danny Postel’s article on Truthout regarding Hugo Chavez’s Legacy

Brief reply to Danny Postel’s article on Truthout regarding Hugo Chavez’s Legacy ... (More) Comments (0)

Is There a Limit on the Number of Corrections per Observer op-ed on Venezuela?

Is There a Limit on the Number of Corrections per Observer op-ed on Venezuela?... (More) Comments (0)

EWG Loses Policy Debate

This blog examines 2, contrasting policy columns form the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, as a substitute for an in-person Farm Bill debate between Ken Cook of the Environmental Working Group and former House Ag Chairman (Republican, Texas,) Larry Combest. It responds to Cook's call for such a debate.... (More) Comments (0)

Factory Closure

A factory closure and its social impact.... (More) Comments (0)

End Criminalization of the Homeless

On Tuesday evening March 5, 2013, seven of us were arrested for trespassing in the parking lot of the abandoned Washington State Fish and Wildlife Building on Washington Street, near the Farmer’s Market in downtown Olympia. In addition I was arrested on the charge of assault for allegedly assaulting State Trooper Wiley. I did not assault anyone. We from the Olympia Movement for Justice and peace are continuing to organizing for housing and other forms of economic and social justice. ... (More) Comments (0)

Letter to AP re: Venezuela "news article"

Letter to AP re: Venezuela "news article"... (More) Comments (0)

Hugo Chavez Presente

In my talk, I discuss significance of Chavez to people of Venezuela, Latin America and the world. Although Chavez made mistakes he will be remembered as someone who advanced humanity in a major way, and worked towards socialism that is democratic and participatory. ... (More) Comments (0)

Samos Futures: Olive Oil, Wine and Honey

A look at farming on Samos island and its possibilities for being the basis of a crisis free, sustainable future.... (More) Comments (0)

Amnesty Still Supports Arming of Syrian Rebels, But Not Palestinians

Amnesty Still Supports Arming of Syrian Rebels, But Not Palestinians ... (More) Comments (0)

Toronto Star Editorial Whitewashes Chavez Opponents

Toronto Star Editorial Whitewashes Chavez Opponents... (More) Comments (0)

Jagged Little Pill -- Love Without Irony

Album Review. Let me caution you that this album review largely mimics the emotional intensity of Morisette's debut, and that it similarly fails to compensate with gentleness, pacing, or an even minutely measured approach. So please don't read it before going to sleep, and probably good to follow it with some sort of vigorous activity.... (More) Comments (0)

Myth: Don’t Grow Feed

The claim that farmers should only grow food crops is a dangerous myth that mistakenly got added into discussions about farm and food justice. The origin and consequences of this myth are explained.... (More) Comments (0)

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