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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

Marcuse

Peter Marcuse's Blog

Web Address: http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/petermarcuse
Bio: Peter Marcuse was born in 1928 in Berlin, the son of book sales clerk Herbert Marcuse and mathematician Sophie Wertheim. They soon moved to Freiburg, where Herbert began to write... (More)

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My Resoc Interview

By Peter Marcuse at Oct 21, 2009


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      1. At a public talk someone asks you, "okay, I understand what
         you reject, but I wonder what you are for? What institutions
         do you want that you think will be better than what we have,
         for the economy, polity, gender, race, ecology, or whatever
         you think is central to have vision for?

A democratically elected government, running programs to provide adequately the necessities for a fulfilled life, at least as efficiently as it now runs Medicar, public education, police and fire departments, etc.



      2. Next, someone at the same event asks, "Why do you do what
         you do? That is, you are speaking to us, and I know you
         write, and maybe you organize, but why do you do it? What do
         you think it accomplishes? What is your goal for your coming
         year, or for your next ten years?

Because all of our lives are interconnected. Whatever it actually accomplishes, one has to try



      3. You are at home and you get an email that says a new
         organization is trying to form, internationally, federating
         national chapters, etc. It asks you to join the effort. Can
         you imagine plausible conditions under which you would say,
         yes, I will give my energies to making it happen along with
         the rest of you who are already involved? If so, what are
         those conditions? Or - do you think instead that regardless
         of the content of the agenda and make up of the
         participants, the idea can't be worthy, now,or perhaps ever.
         If so, why?

I'd need a convincing explanation about why another organization is needed, given the existing broad spectrum.



      4. Do you think efforts to organize movements, projects, and
         our own organizations should embody the seeds of the future
         in the present? If not, why? If yes, can you say what, very
         roughly, you think some of the implications would be for an
         organization you would favor?

Of course.



      5. Why did you answer this interview? Why do you think others
         did not answer it?

Because it could be done quickly, and it might conceivably go somewhere. Because they didn't have time, or see the point.


 

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