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Hello,

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

Progressives Blakout News of Nicaragua Municipal Election, possible causes

By Hernan Espinoza at Dec 17, 2008


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Some one may be hearing our plea.

 

I am so neophyte to this field, that I don’t know what the link with Michael McGehee blog at the end of my blog from last night means.

At the risk of being taken for a presumptuous person, I will assume he may have read it, but I am not so naïve to believe that even if done in solidarity with me, the whole blog was written for my benefit.

Be as it may , if he read it, I’d like to thank him, at the same time explain that I don’t think questioning the progressive writers and reporters reason, for saying nothing about what is happening in the Caribbean basin area, is any manifestation of cynicism on our part.

With Solo, we have listed at least four reasons for which this could be happening. Perhaps Toni was a bit harsh with the advocators of a new social class: the “coordinators” class as being different from the managerial class and yet using the same old way of population control.

I doubt the Znet staff has an editorial board which could be blocking any publication, for reasons other than decency.

Since really I have difficulties handling the uploading programs, I shall write an email to Chris Spannos who is always offering help for those of us “in the bushes“, and directly ask him what are the minimum requirements for an article to show in the Home Page of Znet, which is what most Znet readers use.

I don’t think I have the skills to pass whatever filters might be there, but since contrary to what is suggested to be the second reason, at McGehee blog, for stopping participating in the struggle, I am not a quitter, I shall try my best to squeeze an article of mine on Znet Home Page.

What I have in mind is a general call of attention for writers, sustainers and collaborators of Znet, to consider not doing what normally is done by the mainstream media, if indeed they consciously are doing such a low deed. I mean to block the news from a region, allowing the workers and the people of Nicaragua, to receive collective punishment for whatever faults their government may have. The decent thing to do is to bring up the merits or faults, of actions affecting people of any population, being in America or other continent.

We really don’t want a Caribbean Gaza, and an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of correction, as the old refrain says.

I did not pretend advertising my next trip to Nicaragua, I merely was reassuring myself that it was OK to stop writing blogs at the end of this year and to do what I think I do best: to work along with peasants, using their primitive tools which I have been trained to use since childhood, instead of making so many mistakes with computers, only known to me after old age retirement.

Maybe as a stretch, these moves of mine could be considered in the category of Jobs Complex Mix.

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