Walter Logeman: Journal
What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all the four of them to me? And me to you? ”
–Gregory Bateson
Listened to a wonderful podcast http://www.futureprimitive.org/2011/04/nora-bateson-the-pattern-that-connects/ today Nora Bateson about her movie http://www.anecologyofmind.com/index.html
What is this blog about? It might be all over the place but this picture shows how my filter works.
At the heart is a patch where there is a psychological, or soulful aesthetic, cyberspace phenomena that makes the world a better place.
I love listening to podcasts. But only some! I have a selection I keep, and they are of value to me as they come from a list in Google reader I have pruned and added to over many years. Then from Google reader I select about one-in-100 podcasts that arrive. I listen to these on on the iPhone and delete most of those once I’ve listened. Then a few remain and I save them… I’ve put a few on the blog, and there are some below in this post.
I can’t even remember them exactly, but I’ll summarise these in this post. In each case I’d like to discuss them, to recall them for things I’m writing and so on.
This one is relevant because she is the co-creator of Imago – the method that informs a lot of my work.
The Pelagian Controversy – In Our Time
Simply here because I see such a parallel with the main controversies in psychotherapy today. We have the same debates in secular language.
Leo Bensemann_ A Fantastic Art Venture – Nine to noon
Love anything about The Group. And of course these people were around even while I was at the university here in Christchurch.
Peter Sunde _ file-sharing and micropayments
? Must listen again.
Playing Favorites with David Vann – Kim Hill
? Must listen again.
That worked pretty well, it is almost as easy to do manually, and then I get my own border.
The gallery option may be useful:
[zenphotopress album=69 sort=random number=8]
It is also nice to have the sidedbar working. ~ OK, so that is it done, flickr is “depricated”. will write up more reflections on the point of all this soon.
I’ve jumped around a bit with how to store photos on my blogs. Flickr seemed good as it tied in with an instant community, but uploading to flickr is not quick, and getting the photos back to show in a post is a bit messy. WordPress uploads (to WordPress on my server) seemed ok for a while but it is too complex. I also had some flash based displays & uploads that were ok. But now I am experimenting with putting them all on my own server just with FTP and using open source Zenphotos. It seems I am more in control and it is quick with FTP.
In 2011 I will link back from the photos site to the blog posts as well. As I’ve already done on the one new photo in the album:
https://psyberspace.walterlogeman.com/zenphoto/psyber/2010/mokihinui.jpg.php
I wonder how many other people decided to look at alternatives to flickr?
I’ve made a new photo page.
Looks OK – it is all on my own server… but keep a copy as well. I see there is a pluging to import flickr data. However it is not all that social, or is it? it has comments and it must be easy to share stuff. Hmmm using the Internet, that is social.
and pasting an image here is easy!
Natural Born Blogger – a Dave Winer thing.
I have not been able to leave them alone since before there were blogs, just links pages. I was a user on Dave Winers “Edit this page”. Now I have this one, Psyberspace and my art blog, and I assist and maintain a host of others.
Natural-born blogger. (Scripting News):
Not everyone was born to blog, but some people were.
Pity the poor NBB who was born before there were blogs. You can imagine this person wandering the planet with some unspecified sense of purpose. Scratching his or her head, wondering what exactly it is they were supposed to do with their lives.
Of course that’s a joke, because this instinct had many ways to be satisfied before there were blogs, but it wasn’t as easy as it is for people today.
It may or may not be a good practice, but I often post half finished posts, then edit later, often years later! But mostly minutes or hours later. If there has been discussion i wont tamper with the context. if it is years later i might insert a date to show the progression.
The point is that the RSS feed which sends the whole post (currently) is often the worst way to read this blog.
I will set it to post a snippet only. That way the reader will need to come to the blog, where there is often a more completed post, with more links and images. (and less bad grammar and typos).
I’ve had the Contextual Related Posts Plugin working for a week or two. It is great. WordPress.com has had this for ages, but I’m really pleased to have it here.
Suddenly the ten years of blogging hangs together in a most elegant way. I love seeing what I wrote on a subject in 2000. Often links don’t work! Bad Internet. More & more I put things on my own swerver as well to prevent that.
I have often thought of psyberspace as a book I *should* write, maybe, but this blog will be be a rich addition, resource that will have many advantages over a book.
You can see the related posts when you open the full post. not the “continue reading this post” link at the bottom, but the link in the header.
A snippet quoting Moreno follows from the Federation of Eastern European Psychodrama Training Organisations! (other interesting stuff too in that little journal.)
I think he would have liked the Creative Commons license I use for this blog and my sketches, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License that allows their unaltered non-profit use.
FEPTO – Federation of Eastern European Psychodrama Training Organisation
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