Walter Logeman: Journal
Test from from my phone
I can get .m4a files and .wav files off the phone, they work on the phone and on the pc, but I have no way of doing MP3s yet, on the phone. I prefer them as they are the easiest to play.
This Google flash player for example, will not play the .wav files. It plays an MP3 in the previous post.
[Files don’t work — Friday, 10 September 2021 ]
Updated my Writing Page. It has been updated since (Sunday, 05 June 2022) and is now here.
I am currently working on two papers, both requirements for becoming a TEP, Trainer, Educator and Practitioner in Psychodrama, these are not on my page yet! Soon? :
Principals of Supervision
Principals of Training
Useful PDF on Twitter – I like the line about creativity.
http://www.danah.org/papers/TweetTweetRetweet.pdf
Though the service evolved to include more uses besides SMS. such as web and desktop clients. this limitation persisted, and so was re-narrated as a feature. Twitter`s Creative Director Biz Stone argues, “creativity comes from constraint” [16].
The Art of Being Useless, just googled that, and it does not come up! Let me add “George Sweet”… It does come up: here is a reference. I got the manme wrong. The Advantage of Being Useless.
I wanted to write about the art of being useless. (I should write a companion piece for my art blog.)
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I want to simply reflect (after that prelude) on these words (in no particular order):
Contained
Restrained
Constrained
Receptive
Passive
Silent
Attentive
Absorbed
Engrossed
Reflective
Mindful
Conscious
Alert
Present
Centered
Wait
Watch
Wonder
Patient
The psyche, like love is not to be defined. We know a few things about it & even that is presumptuous. There is no science of soul, or love.
So poetry is one way to speak about these things.
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
This passage from Blake touches on my central experience of psyche. I have often quoted it.
Little Picture <-> Big picture
This is on my mind as I reflect on the parallel process in groups and is supervision in psychotherapy. Patterns repeat within the sessions, and within the psyche. In groups we all learn as one person explores a story in depth. We learn as that story relates to our own srories and we move beyond content to process. Once the process is understood then it is as if we tune in with a law of human nature. (I shle bring in an example but they are hard to describe. I have on in my paper: The Future of Knowing. Also in my Psychodrama thesis The group and the Protagonist.
This phenomena must have been at the heart of astrology. As above so below… yet (for all the value astrology may have) this is not credible to me in the way parallel process is, which is simply experienced, known, self evident.
Plato also saw the connection between the psyche and the larger picture, he related it to our knowledge of social justice.
The Isomorphism Between Social and Psychic Justice
… to construct the definition of psychic justice, he relics on (1) the full definition of social justice he constructed earlier, and the unusual idea that (2) a just city and a just man do not differ at all with respect to justice.
Gerasimos Xenophon Santas Goodness and justice: Plato, Aristotle, and the moderns
Plato makes all sorts of strange arguments based on isoprphy, however the phrase “a just city and a just man do not differ at all with respect to justice.” with respect to process rings true. Almost tautologically. Justice is an abstract idea that know no holon so to speak.
All this is of interest after watching Tom Atlee on a TED talk.
Tom Atlee, the author of “The Tao of Democracy,” gave a TEDx talk in Warwick in England on “Collective Intelligence in a Time of Global Crisis.”
The small group process is seen as a better representation of the peoples will than individual expressions of opinion. This is central to decision making about such things as climate change etc.
It becomes interesting when we see the holons line up:
Individual psyche <-> dialogue <-> Group Process <-> social justice
Understanding & making a shift in any one of these can impact the others. None of it is mystical or automatic. Some ways of working with process are better than others. Facilitation of process is essential.
This image from the N.Y. Times is to the point.
I am moving around in the social network space like a sleeper tossing & turning in bed trying to get comfy.
Managed to get my Tweets off Facebook so I now have a sense of belonging to Facebook, some dear friends and family are there. Twitter is more remote but I follow a buch of great people, they mediate my news.
But for anyone, me included, who wants to see everything I do online it can be seen here in Friendfeed
It is cool, just searched on Friendfeed: from:walterlogeman librarything and saw a bit of history.
Can I publish all that data somewhere where it belongs to me?
Facebook just bought FriendFeed. The ensuing discussions have been fascinating, they raise the question:
Who owns your words?
There has been a fear that our personal writing, intimately connected to us, will be lost, deleted, stolen. It has happened before! E-minds, is one example, and there must be many more. The cry is Backup! OK. I have just set up this blog to make a weekly digest of my Tweets and the @replys. Good idea. Thanks to Twitter Tools. However it is not enough.
Who owns your relationships?
FriendFeed is a community, there is an invasion, a takeover. We can escape with some of our goods, but we have lost our land, and the community. (I am reporting what I hear, and sense though I have only been a member for a few days.)
“A platform is not a community, it is the people.” He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
Yes and no. People are splitting off from FriendFeed, to identica, to Facebook to streamy.com, some are staying. There is a turmoil and a community is in stress. And the people were alienated from the decision. By joining a proprietary community we know this can happen, but no one involved the community members. The real value of FriendFeed is the people, but they were simply sold as part of the property. The relations of of the means of community are not reflected in the relations of the community.
If this jargon is not familiar, read the Communist Manifesto on the relations of production (or look here) and the relations on the means of production. Production is social, ownership is private in capitalism.
We are seeing the virtual microcosm playing out the capitalism of the macrocosm.
And of course, the FB / FF takeover has raised these questions and the responses. Dave Winer is particularly warmed up to the issue, leading two important threads.
One is Your Blog Loves You. We can trust a blog because we own it, and not only that, it can’t be sold, so I can trust your blog as well. (well mostly), I can certainly trust the blogosphere as a whole to persist.
Is this a retreat into individualism & denial of community? Not really. The communal space is then the larger blogosphere, with its clustering, and overlapping communities. Bazaars not a cathederal.
The other Dave Winer initiative is: we’ll build one we own!
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Align the interests of: 1. Users and 2. Investors.
How to do that?
Well, they need to be the same people.
Align the interests of: 1. Users and 2. Investors. How to do that? Well they need to be the same people.
I like the idea, but have misgivings! I’d like to follow up research on online community and the relations of ownership. I will have a look again at Virtual Communities on my bookshelf. Or maybe the current discussion, if you move among the bazaars will do the trick. (See Doc Searls response for example.)
Tom Atlee has just written an excellent item on Town Hall Meetings, notice how important the framework is and how it determines the outcome. Even the simple idea of breaking up into Topic Tables would have a huge impact.
It might pay to start with Engles and his book on Utopias, here is the chapter on Utopian Socialism. I say this because I read it in 1974, after investing 5 years of my life creating and participating in a physical community that was owned by its members. I wish id read it before I embarked on the project!
In conclusion…
Where I am at? The container for dialogue, for community, matters. No one structure or method is best. What suits the purpose.
I have just listened to a spectacular podcast. From 2006 – I missed it till I changed my system of managing podcasts – giving in to the iTunes default way.
Kevin Kelly – The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method.
Download: iTunes — Direct download
The textual summary is here:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kelly06/kelly06_index.html
I continue to discuss the podcast and relate themes to my own writing.
I am tweeting pictures. I am waltzzz on twitter
But really, my main photo page is in Flickr
I must say I am enjoying my Yoono sidebar in Firefox – I am suddenly integrating twits with fotos & facebook. It makes such a difference to me that I can see the pix in the sidebar.
