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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.

Blogs

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Brian Dominick's Blog

Web Address: http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/briandominick
Bio: . Brian has taught a variety of courses at ZMI in the years since. (More)

All Dominick Blogs

Kind of Digging the New ZNet

By Brian Dominick at Dec 07, 2007


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Okay, so far I have to say this is pretty cool. I'm cruising around and beta testing. Finding remarkably little is unfinished or buggy. More investigation soon.

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Re: Kind of Digging the New ZNet

By Dominick, Brian at Dec 15, 2007 10:40 AM

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New pic posted

By Dominick, Brian at Dec 15, 2007 10:33 AM

Sheesh, you guys all had me so self-conscious that I replaced the eyes with a boring headshot. This new one is me at my most sincere. There\'s almost a tear, Suyi -- if you look closely. I\'m going to see if this comment box will let me embed the original photo, for posterity.

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As an aside, one of my earlier ZNet bio photos almost cost The NewStandard its first $10,000 donation. The donor said he was wary of giving money to anyone who had a picture of himself on the Internet picking his nose. I told him if he didn\'t like it, he could eat the boogar. That somehow impressed upon him my integrity, and TNS was born...\'

As a further aside, the second part of that last little story is decidedly untrue.

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By E, Suyi at Dec 15, 2007 10:12 AM

Brian\'s eyes without tears? The Left has Won!

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I like the eyes - the eyes have it

By Albert, Michael at Dec 14, 2007 20:50 PM

I have uploaded photos for a ton of writers, and seen all the others online, and I have to say, Brian\'s is certainly most clever...most noteworthy, most, most....

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Hahaha

By Dominick, Brian at Dec 09, 2007 12:06 PM

Yeah, that does look freaky. I\'ll change it soon, and then no one will know what you guys were talking about...

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yeah man

By Denton, Marcus at Dec 09, 2007 07:39 AM

What\'s up with the eyes? I\'m scared just sitting here. I think Brian\'s eyes are part of the Left\'s stickiness problem...

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nervous....

By Spannos, Chris at Dec 08, 2007 10:39 AM

Uh oh, with the seriousness of those eyes, like a hawks eyes, i just know you\'re going to find something, or many things...

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