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About Z Blogs
Hello,
Blogs are a familiar feature on the internet - where users post content in an accumulating manner, with comments beneath and search options, etc. Blogs facilitate expression and exploration, and via attached comments, also debate and synthesis.
Creating Blog Posts
You can click here to create a new post.
Or, here is the whole procedure...
- Log into ZNet. Use your email and password. The system can send you a new password if you need one. If you haven't logged in at all, as yet, to start you need to request a new password.
- After loging in, on the left side of the admin bar at the very top of the page, you will see a plus symbol with the word New next to it, that looks like "+ New". Role your mouse over the symbol and click "ZBlog". This will take you to the admin page to upload a new blog. This is the most convenient access, as you can do it from anywhere on the site, anytime. You can also click this link: add a blog post.
- Add a blog title, fill the body content area (you can edit the source code/html by clicking the Text option on the Visual/Text tab in the editor). You can choose from among many formatting options, and embedding media.
- Once done editing your blog, in the top right "Publish" box, you can choose to save your blog as a draft or you can publish it immediately.
- After saving your blog as either Published or Draft, you can choose to view your post by selecting the "View post" link above the title or "Preview Changes" in the "Publish" box.
- You can edit your published blog either from your admin dashboard by clicking "ZBlogs" in the left side menu, or by viewing your blog and clicking the "Edit ZBlog" from the top admin bar.
Navigating and Using Blogs
Each Z author can post. Z Sustainers can also post. All Blogs appear in the blog system, and sometimes also in content boxes the top page of ZNet and can be found via searches, etc.
Comments on blogs follow the blogs, attached at the bottom, and blog comments, like all others, are also visible in many places that show comments. In addition, the entire blog system gathers content from 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. 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.
Searches allow even more variables and refinements.
Z Interview Series
Some interviews with regular Z writers
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Peters: No More Random Acts
Marty & Marty: The Challenge is Global
Podur: Leftist in Every Bubble
Street: Side with the Underdog
Wilpert: Tackling Institutions
Vegas: A Revolutionary Environment
Pearson: We Don't Have Borders
Pilger: View from the Ground
All Z Blogs
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Emersberger: UK Tories win Majority in Parliament despite getting only 36% of the votes
May 10, 2015
Another outrageous result courtesy of the First Past the Post electoral system. Graphics below show the grim details. Richard Seymour... Read more →
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Emersberger: All you need to know about the UK election – courtesy of Peter of InterventionsWatch
May 6, 2015
One of my favorite writes maintains the InterventionsWatch blog and also contributes regularly to the Media Lens Message Board He... Read more →
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Ananth: Healing while fighting the good fight to be free
May 6, 2015
Sriram Ananth ([email protected]) Blog: https://loveliberationstruggle.wordpress.com/ Fighting the good fight to be free. Fighting to free ourselves, our loved ones, our... Read more →
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libbyliberal: Savage Sentences for Test-Altering Atlanta Teachers
May 6, 2015
In mid-April a Florida superior court judge handed down harsh prison sentences to 10 former school administrators, principals and elementary... Read more →
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libbyliberal: Time to Play Lucy and the Football with Sanders, Progressives?
May 2, 2015
Patrick Martin in “Bernie Sanders to seek Democratic presidential nomination” takes a much needed CLOSE look at the history and realpolitik... Read more →
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Emersberger: Dear Reuters: Don’t you have access to Youtube?
April 30, 2015
Reuters does its bit support alarmist claims about Venezuela’s economy in an article by Andrew Cawthorne and Brian Ellsworth: “Venezuela... Read more →
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Emersberger: Make up your own PDVSA data? What are Reuters’ folks smoking in the USA?
April 27, 2015
Plenty of international media have pushed claims that the Venezuelan government is on the brink of default, but how many... Read more →
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Khan: Commemorating the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan
April 27, 2015
Nasir Khan, April 27, 2015 Today is the anniversary of the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan. On 27 April 1978, the... Read more →
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Ananth: Trinity of Trifectas: an anti-oppressive mental health template for healing and liberation
April 21, 2015
by Sriram Ananth ([email protected]) Blog: https://loveliberationstruggle.wordpress.com/ An article I recently wrote on anti-oppressive listening and solidarity-based therapy was... Read more →
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Simpson: The Chicago election: the electoral revolution that didn’t happen
April 21, 2015
It was one helluva an election season on the shores of Lake Michigan. Last summer I was brimming with optimism. The Chicago... Read more →
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Venkat: A critique on the immutability of word order in a language and science in general
April 19, 2015
First I must declare I am no expert both in linguistics, science or politics. I have lived long in the... Read more →
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libbyliberal: A Litmus Test on Empathy
April 19, 2015
The victims of the shooting spree included a 9 year old, a 20 year old aspiring medical student and his... Read more →
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Emersberger: Oliver Kamm Slanders Media Lens – again
April 18, 2015
Media Lens never engaged in “sexist abuse” of Emma Brockes, or anyone else, and never made threats against Bronwen Maddox.... Read more →
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Water Running through Missouri
April 15, 2015
Green Time TV Water Running through Missouri by Don Fitz Missouri has some of the most beautiful waterways... Read more →
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Emersberger: David Smilde praises “smart piece” in WAPO that quotes him
April 10, 2015
On twitter David Smilde calls out this article by the WAPO’s Nick Miroff as a “smart Piece” An excerpt follows:... Read more →
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libbyliberal: The Rape of Ukraine’s Farmland by US Agribusiness
April 10, 2015
According to Colin Todhunter in “The Perils of Concentrated Agriculture, US Agribusiness, GMOs and the Plundering of the Planet” rich and powerful... Read more →
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Fitz: Green Time TV: The Substance of Criminality
April 6, 2015
Green Time TV The Substance of Criminality by Don Fitz Did it ever cross your mind that some... Read more →
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libbyliberal: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 3/25/1911
April 3, 2015
Re-post from 3-18-11 Correntewire [historical info taken from American Experience presentation and poetry from Jonathan Fink] On April 5, 2011, 400,000 New Yorkers,... Read more →
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Emersberger: Reuters, of all people, exposes coup plotters in Venezuela
April 3, 2015
This is quite a refreshingly in-depth article by Reuters (authors Andrew Cawthorne and Girish Gupta) that explores the most extremist... Read more →
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Levy: The Anthropocene? It’s just inhuman
April 2, 2015
From the People and Nature site Human activity has changed the earth so drastically that we are in a new... Read more →
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libbyliberal: Latest US Crucifixion of a Conscience-Possessor, POW Bergdahl
April 1, 2015
The Pentagon has decided to bring desertion and misbehavior charges against the former 5-year Afghanistan POW Bowe Bergdahl. The Wall... Read more →
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Levy: Workers’ solidarity in wartime: Bosnia 1993, Ukraine 2015
March 30, 2015
From People & Nature There is a fragile ceasefire in place in eastern Ukraine, but the devastation wrought by military... Read more →
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Wittner: Who Are the Nuclear Scofflaws?
March 30, 2015
Given all the frothing by hawkish U.S. Senators about Iran’s possible development of nuclear weapons, one might think that Iran... Read more →
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libbyliberal: Return of the Firing Squad!!! WTF???
March 29, 2015
In “The firing squad returns to America” Barry Grey rails against the re-institutionalization of the firing squad for capital punishment in the... Read more →
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libbyliberal: US & Its Axis of Evil Now to Bloodbathe Yemen!!!
March 29, 2015
So once again international law is the enemy of the US and its Axis of Evil which includes Saudi Arabia... Read more →
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Emersberger: Is Reuters Allowed to Report More than One Pollster’s Results?
March 27, 2015
Reuters’ Caracas folks write as if they’ve been told that only Datanalisis poll results can be reported. Datanalisis is an... Read more →
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Simpson: Marching in Chicago’s far West Side for $15 an hour and a union
March 23, 2015
On Saturday March 21, several hundred people shut down a McDonalds at Laramie and North Ave on Chicago’s Far West... Read more →
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March 21, 2015
The Economist trotted out a farcical excuse that has become popular among Obama’s apologists – that labeling the situation in Venezuela an “extraordinary... Read more →
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Simpson: Fight for $15 joins striking BP oil workers on the picketline
March 20, 2015
“It appeared as if the whole world was one elaborate system, opposed to justice and kindness, and set to making... Read more →
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Wittner: Poetry of Sorrow and Hope
March 19, 2015
David Krieger’s new book of poems―Wake Up!―shows us that poetry engaged with world affairs can be very powerful. In a... Read more →
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