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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

Gay Marriage and Post-Racial

Gay marriage is most certainly a civil rights issue, and it's sad that it was not resolved ages ago, but we shouldn't fool ourselves into thinking the race issue is behind us.... (More) Comments (0)

How Fitting That Michael Deibert Lauds Rory Carroll’s book about Hugo Chavez

How Fitting That Michael Deibert Lauds Rory Carroll’s book about Hugo Chavez ... (More) Comments (0)

US Media Replace Rachel Corrie with Israeli Spy

When a young man interrupted President Obama's speech, shouting in Hebrew, American media outlets reported that the man was protesting about Jonathan Pollard, the imprisoned Israeli spy. The heckler was actually an Arab-Israeli student who was questioning Obama's arming of the apartheid state and the American government's complicity in the killing of Rachel Corrie.... (More) Comments (0)

Poll of UK public regarding its knowledge of Iraq death toll

Poll of UK public regarding its knowledge of Iraq death toll... (More) Comments (0)

Paleoclimate study that matters

A new paleoclimate study going back 11,300 years confirms the "hockey stick" research targeted by climate science denialists... (More) Comments (0)

Remember Rachel Corrie

Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of Rachel Corrie's death. Rachel was a 23-year-old peace activist from Olympia, Washington and a student at Evergreen State College, who was crushed to death by an Israeli/American (Caterpillar) bulldozer on March 16th, 2003, while trying to protect the home of a Palestinian family from demolition. ... (More) Comments (0)

The Chicago school closings: Finding truth amidst the lies

It was a grim Thursday afternoon on March 21st as the news trickled out that 61 Chicago school buildings would be closed and that 54 school programs will be axed. The closings are heavily clustered in the poorest mostly African American and Latino neighborhoods, where decades of disinvestment and economic apartheid have taken a heavy toll on the residents. ... (More) Comments (0)

Glenn Greenwald Slams the UK Guardian's latest Chomsky "interview"

Glenn Greenwald Slams the UK Guardian's latest Chomsky "interview" ... (More) Comments (0)

For better or worse!

Sad loss of Hugo. New Pope & liberation theology. St Patricks day parades censorship in Dublin Ireland & some art!... (More) Comments (0)

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)

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