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.
This blog will include brief comments on diverse topics of concern in our time. They will sometimes come from the ZNet Sustainer Forum System where Noam interacts through a forum of his own, sometimes from direct submissions, sometimes culled from mail and other outlets -- always from Noam Chomsky.
I am me. I am not setting up to be like any person else. I may admire the symbols, the philosophy, the viewpoints of other persons, but with all due respect, I do not aspire to be like anyone else. How can I? I am me.
In a day and age that everything is becoming consolidated, corporations are becoming larger in size and lesser in numbers, and operating in so by the means of mergers and acquisitions and by the means of oligopolies and monopolies, then what does it mean , being an individual? People are being organized through professionalism and industrial organization. Individualism is vaporizing as mass media dissolves into expansion. Mass media? Media for the great majority? It’s the era of producerism, we are no longer individuals, but just masses. We are being turned into instruments that metabolize decaying goods in exchange for our hard labored money. Intelligence is capitalized, institutionalized, indoctrinated, and then called human capital. Human capital, or call it hard labor or call it our precious time on earth, it is being sold for money, which is in turn is being traded for failing products. Can you say you are well off if all you have if a bunch of effects piled up? If you earned it through dishonesty, then did you sell morality for capital? Every action has a reaction, so karma will seize. There is no flight from it. If you worked hard for your money, believing that the affluence will bring you happiness, then where are the riches? In the bank? In the quarters you built? In the cars you bought? In the schooling you spent on your offspring? Did you work so hard just to buy property? Is it crucial to devour all that?
Does that make you sense that you have achieved a measure of success in life?
Next ask yourself, has all the equipment brought you real bliss?
If all that you have attained were to be swept away in a hurricane, would you be still residing tranquil?
Would you still be
Everything is gone, but are you still in bliss?
I BELEIVE THAT:
If you can not be happy in no-thing….you can not be happy with any-thing….
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Re: Welcome
By Bonner, David at Jan 12, 2010 22:52 PM
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By Kissenger, Clark at Mar 11, 2006 02:39 AM
individualism
In a day and age that everything is becoming consolidated, corporations are becoming larger in size and lesser in numbers, and operating in so by the means of mergers and acquisitions and by the means of oligopolies and monopolies, then what does it mean , being an individual? People are being organized through professionalism and industrial organization. Individualism is vaporizing as mass media dissolves into expansion. Mass media? Media for the great majority? It’s the era of producerism, we are no longer individuals, but just masses. We are being turned into instruments that metabolize decaying goods in exchange for our hard labored money. Intelligence is capitalized, institutionalized, indoctrinated, and then called human capital. Human capital, or call it hard labor or call it our precious time on earth, it is being sold for money, which is in turn is being traded for failing products. Can you say you are well off if all you have if a bunch of effects piled up? If you earned it through dishonesty, then did you sell morality for capital? Every action has a reaction, so karma will seize. There is no flight from it. If you worked hard for your money, believing that the affluence will bring you happiness, then where are the riches? In the bank? In the quarters you built? In the cars you bought? In the schooling you spent on your offspring? Did you work so hard just to buy property? Is it crucial to devour all that?
Does that make you sense that you have achieved a measure of success in life?
Next ask yourself, has all the equipment brought you real bliss?
If all that you have attained were to be swept away in a hurricane, would you be still residing tranquil?
Would you still be
Everything is gone, but are you still in bliss?
I BELEIVE THAT:
If you can not be happy in no-thing….you can not be happy with any-thing….
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