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Geography of the Web – Gunderloy

But then, the web isn’t really a geography. Or if it is, it’s a geography akin to that of dreams and literature as well as to that of the physical world.

From Mike Gunderloy’s short article. He maintains his own site with journal and weblog, Larkfarm as well as cybering

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The Economies of Online Cooperation:

The Internet is filled with junk and jerks. It is commonplace for inhabitant of the Internet to complain bitterly about the lack of cooperation, decorum, and useful information. The signal-to-noise ratio, it is said, is bad and getting worse.

Even a casual trip through cyberspace will turn up evidence of hostility, selfishness, and simple nonsense. Yet the wonder of the Internet is not that there is so much noise, but that there is any significant cooperation at all. Given that online interaction is relatively anonymous, that there is no central authority, and that it is difficult or impossible to impose monetary or physical sanctions on someone, it is striking that the Internet is not literally a war of all against all. For a student of social order, what needs to be explained is not the amount of conflict but the great amount of sharing and cooperation that does occur in online communities.

This might be useful in the “commodification” discussion.

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The C.G. Jung Page:

The Jung Page was founded in 1995 to encourage new psychological ideas and conversations about what it means to be human in our time and place

This is a new address for the jung page. I thought it had gone defunct. A good place to go.

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Atomz.com Search Engine

Atomz.com is the leading provider of hosted Web site applications helping corporations, small businesses, and individual Web developers build better Web sites. Our first service, Atomz.com Search, the leading site search service, allows you to quickly add a powerful search engine to your Web site with no hardware or software to install. We have a variety of services to meet your needs. Choose the right one for you:

You will see that I have ustalled one! It works well.

Psychotherapy Online with Walter Logeman

Psychotherapy Online with Walter Logeman

My invitation….

Write to me, in
an an email, about one of the following:

One of your dreams.
A difficulty or dilemma you are having.
A challenge or crisis in a relationship.
Strong feelings you have now.
A topic of your choice.

I will respond by email, free of charge, from my psychological perspective.

I will also let you know how to continue psychotherapy online with me if you choose to.

To get started email me:walter@psybernet.co.nz

I have updated my Psychotherapy Online pages.

August 2021

to be clear… this was 21 years ago.  I did that work for decades and loved it .  I could do so again.  But not now.  Other projects occupy my life. Training psychodrama, running groups .

 

 

 

Symbolic Species

The Symbolic Species : The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon

What separates humans from animals, Deacon writes, is our capacity for symbolic representation. Animals can easily learn to link a sound with an object or an effect with a cause. But symbolic thinking assumes the ability to associate things that might only rarely have a physical correlation; think of the word “unicorn,” for instance, or the idea of the future. Language is only the outward expression of this symbolic ability, which lays the foundation for everything from human laughter to our compulsive search for meaning.

It is this ability to do the symbolic thing that is the stuff that dreams and cyberspace is made of.

Friday, 12 January 2024

But. This is a philosophically idealist perspective.

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XML in 10 points
I have a sense, but am not sure, that XML is actually something that strengthens our personal connections. I know that all this might work towards some commodification process… however I’d like it to also assist in the process of linking me to others inthe collaborative filtering way, can it do that? Do i need to learn it?