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Hello,

Blogs are a familiar feature on the internet - where users post content in an accumluating manner, with comments, and search options, etc.

Our blogs are quite powerful. Each writer can post, as is typically the case. Sustainers who have the option can also post, however. Blogs appear in the blog system, and sometimes also on the top page of ZNet - 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 as well as 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. All this is easily done using the left menu. Searches allow even more variables and refinements. 

IF you are a Sustainer with permission, and are logged in, you will also see a link in the left menu for you to post a blog - and you can use that to post one, and tag it various ways, and once you do, it is in the system with you are 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.

Soon there will be another dimension to our blog system. We will have group pages, or you might call them network pages. These will be like ZSpace pages, but for whole groups. The moderator of a group will be able to control the content boxes and menus on the page. The group will have its own group blog as well. This will have other features too, to be seen soon!

Meanwhile, enjoy the blogs - and, by the way, if you have a ZSpace page, of course you can put one or more content boxes on it, pulling blog links of any sort you may want, for example, by topic, by certain people, about places, etc.

Z Blogs

French Left on the Move

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American Democracy: No More Illusions

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Anthropocentrism’s Antidote

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Can We Call it “Just Another Fascist Regime in the Middle East” yet?

Once again, I was right there in the middle of this police riot, and I’m sad to say you get used to it. I didn’t even panic and that is a true sign of repression. ... (More) Comments (0)

Coffee Party???

YouTube videos of a new group calling themselves The Coffee Party.... (More) Comments (0)

MoveOn

In response to MoveOn.org's recent email blasts and its and Obama's attempt to primary Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio.... (More) Comments (0)

Bonuses for Bosses at Mercury

Latest chapter of Mercury Marine outrages... (More) Comments (0)

Forest residues?

The plant, which is being part-funded by an £18m grant from the national lottery, will initially burn forest residue: sawdust, branches and offcuts Mmmh....... (More) Comments (0)

Third Draft - of Poll

Third Draft of possible organizational poll... (More) Comments (15)

Stoneridge

Links on Stoneridge... (More) Comments (0)

Ahmadinejad and Iran's economy

Despite his populist speeches, Ahmadinejad economic policies has failed to improve the living conditions of the poor and yet he gets ready to remove general subsiidies.... (More) Comments (0)

A Return to Educational Apartheid?

The journal Critical Education announces a new series of articles titled "A Return to Educational Apartheid? Critical Examinations of Race, Schools, and Segregation... (More) Comments (0)

how constitutional is the war-Laureate?

if you look to "military-Hegemony" you get autocrats of the Pentagons/CIAS who invade and kill, but who's the war-Laureate supposed to believe if not himself?... (More) Comments (0)

Tabloid News and War

A public option for the media?... (More) Comments (0)

Critical Education launches new series

With the current issue, Critical Education launches a new series of articles titled "The Lure of the Animal: Addressing Nonhuman Animals in Educational Theory and Research." ... (More) Comments (0)