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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

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

Let’s return to a public option for the media, more like Jefferson and Madison intended. ... (More) Comments (0)

Tutor is a neocon, I find out

get assigned to a tute, find the tutor pretty cool - I go home and find out he's in league with the devil so to speak.... (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)

Stumbling on Human Right

Obama's awkward response to a college student's question at a town hall-style meeting about human rights abuses by the top two recipient governments of U.S. security assistance -- Israel and Egypt -- says much about his foreign policy priorities. ... (More) Comments (2)

Democracy Without Democracy

It would be impossible to overstate the energies unleashed during the 2008 election.... (More) Comments (0)

P2P Parecon

A Peer to Peer system based on Parecon principles that you would like to use? ... (More) Comments (3)

Do professional ethics matter in war? Hugh Gusterson

Reprising the story of the American Anthropological Association versus the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System...... (More) Comments (0)

Euro area approaching a trap

Greece, Spain, Portugal...used to be on the periphery of economists' interests. Now they turned out to be the biggest challenge to Euro area of the new decade.... (More) Comments (0)

Students meet Dr. Peper Sprary

The National Day of Action of students fighting tuition hikes, with links to videos... (More) Comments (0)

Bolivia; Change we REALLY Can believe in

There's a game I've been playing recently. Any time I read the news and get depressed about the parlous state of our world, I type "Bolivia" into Google news and wait for the results. It's really all you need to brighten up your day. ... (More) Comments (0)

Iraqi Election

A look at the background to the recent elections held in Iraq and the challanges confronting Iraqi society in the future. The elections will determine the composition of the next government and is widely seen as a necessary step towards continuing the US withdrawal of troops, the healing of sectarian tensions, and the establishment of a democratic and secular state.... (More) Comments (0)

Chumbawamba London Gig

Review of Chumbawamba's recent London gig.... (More) Comments (0)