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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

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)

Full Spectrum Dominance

This is a Magnetised Artwork I created & I now dedicate it to Hugo Chavez, the people of Venezuela & all people who do not enjoy or wish to let bullies have our world & its spirit.... (More) Comments (0)

yet ANOTHER op-ed re Venezuela gets whoppers past the Guardian/Observer editors

yet ANOTHER op-ed re Venezuela gets whoppers past the Guardian/Observer editors ... (More) Comments (0)

An accepted then rejected letter to the UK Independent re Venezuela

An accepted then rejected letter to the UK Independent re Venezuela... (More) Comments (0)

No Dash For Gas

EDF, the power company, was denounced last week for attacking the right to protest, after it launched a 5 million UK pounds damages claim against 21 activists. That followed a sit-in at West Burton power station by No Dash For Gas. The campaigners hope their action will help create a broad movement against fossil-fuel-driven energy policy and to reclaim energy as a common good, one of them says in this interview.... (More) Comments (0)

Hugo Chavez Exposed the ”Liberal medial” and will not be forgiven

Hugo Chavez Exposed the ”Liberal medial” and will not be forgiven ... (More) Comments (0)

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Chavez: the Motive-Hunting of a Malignant NGO

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Chavez: the Motive-Hunting of a Malignant NGO... (More) Comments (0)

Breadcrumbs, Hunger Groups Fail

During the 1980s Farm Crisis Churches listened to farmers and made major commitments to the Farm Justice (Family Farm) Movement. Twenty years later, those commitments were largely forgotten as churches and hunger groups, (often religious in nature,) took stands on the 2008 (2007) Farm Bill that sided with agribusiness against US and global farmers. They offered solutions that were not grounded in reality, based upon ideas that were popular in the mainstream media and Food Movement. The biggest issue was dumping, where the US, the single dominant exporter, chose to lose money on farm commodity exports, thus hurting farmers globally, such as those in Least Developed Countries, which are 70% rural. The false solutions added up to no more than 'breadcrumbs for the world.'... (More) Comments (0)

Continuum: Right-Wing Propaganda

"Continuum", the Canadian Science Fiction series now featured on the US SyFy channel escalates the incorporation of right-wing tropes into popular entertainment. ... (More) Comments (0)

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