Walter Logeman: Journal
Design for Community: About [dead Tuesday, 9 March, 2010]
Welcome to Design for Community! “If you’re not sure what it is you’re looking at, here’s the basic idea: Design for Community is a book, an attitude, and, hopefully, a community.”
Design for Community by Derek Powazek
There is also a useful weblog to link to from here.
Daypop – a current events/weblog/news search engine Search 7000 News Sites and Weblogs for Current Events and Breaking News
Google Web APIs – Home Develop Your Own Applications Using Google
It will be interesting to see what happens here. Any one seen an application?
Dave Winer on the Google APIs
Techne & Psyche Techne & Psyche
perspectives on technoscience and the cultural psyche
Dolores Brien’s very psybernet related weblog. One I’ll be watching a lot. Dolores has a real interest and insight into the psyche and the Net.
See also:
An interview with Stephen L. Talbott. The Machine in the Ghost.
Archetypes of the Internet by Dolores Brien.
Internet Magazine – News/Advice/Reviews/ISPs/Hosting
Kim Gilmour asks its busy 29-year-old co-founder and CEO Evan Williams about how weblogs have changed the Web
EVHEAD.. (Unsafe? and redirects to https://ev.medium.com/). Updated.
What’s this?
“This is the personal web site of Evan Williams, president/CEO of Pyra Labs, the creators and operators of Blogger, a web application used to publish, among other things, sites like this (so, you see, this is work!). Here, I write about the Internet, business, blogs, San Francisco, my life, and various other things as they occur to me.”
Thursday, 06 October 2022 Update
updated link above old one dead
https://ev.medium.com/
Psychotherapy: Why some people have abandoned it, more from Cliff Bostock:
So, in soulwork, our task is to imagine our way to truth, our calling in the world. The work does not require artistry, only the willingness to engage in the imaginal. The psyche naturally communicates metaphorically and in images (thus the work is often called “psychopoetics”). The imagination places us in the realm of “the invisibles,” to use Hillman’s term, or in mundus imaginalis, to use Henry Corbin’s term. This is the place where our destiny reveals itself — between the literal and the wholly imaginary. In this place, so unfamiliar to most people in our society — and even scorned by much psychology — life speaks clearly to us through the autonomous voice of personified soul.
Writings
Deiknymena: Erotic revelations in cyberspace
by Cliff Bostock
“But who is imagining in cyberspace?As we surf the Web an apparent random series of images begins to arise that at some level has coherence to the psyche (if we can presume some kind of coherence is necessary to maintain our attention). Any web surfer can verify that this “dialog” can go on for hours. The lived experience is not of incoherence and disassociation. It is instead of fascination and learning. One feels in contact … but with what?
This too is similar to accounts of the mystery cults. One is taken over by the experience – specifically by the “god” in the experience at the center of the cult. Despite the balkanization, the fragmentation into various cults with different contents, the shared experience in all of them is of being overtaken. The same is true in cyberspace. To put it in Marshall McLuhan’s terms: We are re-tribalized (into newsgroups and chat rooms), but the particular content of the tribe doesn’t matter so much. Why? Because the medium itself is the message.
But, again, what is the fundamental quality of the medium – or, as the Greeks might put it, what is the god in the medium? Perhaps, as Ulansey seems to suggest, it is the collective psyche or anima mundi – the “megasynthesis” of matter and thought into a self-reflective colelctive envisioned by Teilhard de Chardin (1959).”
The line “…what is the god in the medium?” interests me here. It is a project of mine – the archetypes of cyberspace.
O’Reilly Network: Keeping Genome Data Open [Apr. 05, 2002]
“Jim Kent was a graduate student in biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), when he wrote the program that allowed the public human genome team to assemble its fragments just before Celera’s private, commercial effort. His program ensured that the human genome data would remain in the public domain. Kent wrote the 10,000-line program in a month, because he didn’t want to see the genome data locked up by commercial patents.”
A hero indeed! One of the spin-offs from now using GNU/Linux is that it is easier to see how locking away human knowledge for the benefit of the rich is just evil!
