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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
Stresing: An Ordinary Radical
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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Corporate Watch UK: Democratic Confederalism in Kurdistan
April 25, 2016
First published: Mon, 18/04/2016 – 16:05 Lead photo caption: A commune meeting in Amude in Rojava’s Cizîrê canton, November 2015... Read more →
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Evans: Addressing the Root Causes of Classism – much easier than you thought?
April 19, 2016
What About Classism? is a new UK based pressure group geared towards making rigged economics a human rights issue. Perhaps... Read more →
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Young Environmental Activists and Ideas
April 15, 2016
Green Time TV Young Environmental Activists and Ideas by Don Fitz Protection of the environment requires experienced activists forging young... Read more →
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April 13, 2016
I had this review posted years ago on Amazon but I no longer post content there since Amazon pulled Wikileaks... Read more →
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Emersberger: Macri Tilts Argentina’s Media Landscape in his Favor
April 10, 2016
But don’t expect outrage from big “press freedom” advocates By Joe Emersberger (originally for Telesur ) Even before Mauricio Macri’s... Read more →
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April 3, 2016
the infinitesimal is utopian; it falls behind the curve that slopes ever so slightly, tends to lie lest it fall... Read more →
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Khan: Ideology behind the terrorist killings in Lahore
March 30, 2016
Nasir Khan, March 30, 2016 A suicide bomber belonging to extremist group, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, associated with the Pakistani Taliban, attacked a... Read more →
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March 26, 2016
Re-post from 3-18-2011. [historical info taken from American Experience presentation and poetry from Jonathan Fink] On April 5, 2011, 400,000... Read more →
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Khan: ISIS terror attacks in Brussels in a wider context of US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
March 23, 2016
Nasir Khan On 22 March 2016, some suicide bombers carried out their indiscriminate attacks on the innocent people in Brussels.... Read more →
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Lichtenstein: The Democrats Ignore the Poor at Their Own Peril
March 22, 2016
The Democratic presidential primaries have been upended by Bernie Sanders’s populist revolution on the “left” tapping into the deep discontent... Read more →
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Wittner: The Trillion Dollar Question
March 16, 2016
Isn’t it rather odd that America’s largest single public expenditure scheduled for the coming decades has received no attention in... Read more →
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libbyliberal: Dr. Jill Stein & the “Green New Deal” Recovery Plan for Ailing America
March 14, 2016
According to the Green Party’s 2016 Presidential candidate, Dr. Jill Stein, the Democratic Party cannot be trusted to defend the... Read more →
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Zoomkawala: the myth is not the fairytale
March 11, 2016
the myth is not the fairytale, though it pretends to catch the drift, the smoke and the paltry guts that... Read more →
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Khan: Gross exploitation of religion by using the blasphemy laws in Pakistan
March 11, 2016
by Dr. Nasir Khan People around the world have become increasingly aware of the blasphemy laws in Pakistan. In fact,... Read more →
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Wilson: Brad Wilson’s Farm Bill Proposal
February 29, 2016
INTRODUCTION (This introduces and supplements my recent op-ed, linked just below.) Farm justice, (labeled as a “family farm” point of... Read more →
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Wilson: George Monbiot Misinterprets Farm Subsidies 1
February 23, 2016
(This blog is Part 1 of a 2-part article.) Monbiot’s Pro-Corporate Outrage (Authors note: This is a work in progress... Read more →
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libbyliberal: Dr. Jill Stein as Savior Not Spoiler of 2016 Prez Election
February 17, 2016
Caught in an undertow of ever-escalating amorality, we, the American people, drift ever farther from the shores of a representative... Read more →
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libbyliberal: Tweeting #JillStein
February 16, 2016
INTRODUCTION TO JILL & GREEN NEW DEAL! #JillStein: Green Party prez candidate: physician, her Green New Deal to eradicate unemployment... Read more →
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Wittner: Bernie Sanders: The 2016 Peace Candidate
February 12, 2016
On February 10, 2016, Peace Action—the largest peace organization in the United States—announced its endorsement of Bernie Sanders for the... Read more →
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Evans: What About Classism? The Basic Plan…
February 8, 2016
Below is a presentation of the basic plan, in three stages, for our new pressure group called What About Classism?... Read more →
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Khan: The Palestinians and their Struggle for Freedom
February 8, 2016
Nasir Khan, February 8, 2016 To murder any person, Israeli or Palestinian, is not just because of ‘human nature’! In... Read more →
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Emersberger: Sweden and the UK unmasked. Only the UK corporate media could miss it.
February 6, 2016
Below are what I regard as the key excerpts from the UN working group ruling in favor of Julian Assange.... Read more →
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Lichtenstein: Housing Desegregation, Diversity and Social Interaction
February 4, 2016
Writing in The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell asks what can be learned from the residents of New Orleans who left... Read more →
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Emersberger: Can NYT reporters read Venezuelan newspapers?
January 19, 2016
The latest NYT reporter to be parachuted into Venezuela writes “Press freedom throughout Latin America is under threat, though the... Read more →
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Wittner: “Modernizing” the Opportunities for Nuclear War
January 18, 2016
A fight now underway over newly-designed U.S. nuclear weapons highlights how far the Obama administration has strayed from its commitment... Read more →
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Safety for People and the Environment
January 16, 2016
Green Time TV Safety for People and the Environment by Don Fitz Protecting people and the environment can be two... Read more →
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Corporate Watch UK: Rebuilding Kobanê
January 15, 2016
Tom Anderson and Eliza Egret report from the war-torn city of Kobanê and meet those trying to rebuild what Daesh and... Read more →
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Corporate Watch UK: What to make of COP21?
January 15, 2016
Tom Anderson and Pete Smith 14 January 2016 Reflections on the Paris climate talks from members of the Corporate Watch... Read more →
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Montgomery: A short history of refined carbs
January 14, 2016
Looking at high energy carbohydrates from an evolutionary, political, disease, sports and science perspective. “Let food be thy medicine and... Read more →
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Simpson: The Chicago City Colleges: Why close child development programs when the need is so great?
January 12, 2016
Expanding access to high quality early childhood education is among the smartest investments that we can make. Research has shown... Read more →
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Z Communications operates largely - indeed mostly - in fact, overwhelmingly - based on periodic donations from Z Sustainers. Everything you see in the site is here because Sustainers pay they bills. It really is that simple.
So we need users to become Sustainers. And what does this have to do with Blogs?
Well, it is a perk of helping us by being a Sustainer that you can comment on materials throughout the site, and that you can post blogs.
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