Category: Psyber

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Flipboard is the Future

I thought the same, when I saw Flipboard I thought this is the end of Magazines and Newspapers as we know them. 

The main reason is that socially mediated news is far superior to news from one source.I just can’t read one magazine – I prefer selections based on collaborative filtering or at least selected sources.

Danah Boyd said it somewhere.  Who shares a story is more important than who writes it!

We are all mediators its not hard to do, just click I like, or retweat as you read or go one step further, as I am doing now and blog a bit.  Build the contest. 

Analyst’s View: Flipboard for iPad Is Rupert Murdoch’s Nightmare | Jeff Wilson | PCMag.com:

Flipboard is the Future

Flipboard is simply doing what most old-media newspapers and magazines can’t or won’t do: it’s becoming a front runner in the digital age instead of being has-beens that carry the legacy weight of tradition. When Electronic Gaming Monthly went under, and re-emerged as an entity that blended evergreen print stories with timely online news and reviews via its EGMi interactive Web site, it was deemed as one of the few publications that “get” the new medium. PCmag.com itself is a former print magazine that has successfully completed the transition to an all-digital format. But such examples are few and far between.

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Cyberspace

An interview with William Gibson (by Dan Josefsson):

…cyberspace is the place where a long distance telephone call takes place. Actually it’s the place where any telephone call takes place and we take that very much for granted. Otherwise I would say that when people use the Internet, that’s when they’re most obviously navigating in cyberspace. When you use the Internet you enter a realm in which geography no longer exist.

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Are You Mad Enough To Stop Using It? Can You Even Stop Using It?

Mad At Google? The Question Is: Are You Mad Enough To Stop Using It? Can You Even Stop Using It? http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/08/10/mad-at-google-the-question-is-are-you-mad-enough-to-stop-using-it-can-you-even-stop-using-it/

One of the many items discussed in the “brainstorm” documents: will Google create a “Like button” that follows you around the Internet, dumping all of that “like” data into a giant database that it then hands over to the highest bidder? What’s to stop it from doing so, and does that bother you?

(Sent from Flipboard)

Posted this ’cause it is interesting in its own right but also because of how the quest for the perfect collaborative filtering is still not achieved. I reckon someone might build it on top of everything. Open source would be best. Wikipedia style collaborative filtering network based on algorithms that know what you like because others like you like it.

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Coaching Couples by Telephone

Not something I want to d, but email and other asynchronous methods might be a goer.  This discussion might be worth following up on.

Coaching Couples on the Telephone – Loving With Intention Articles:

This past week I had the honor of presenting to the Imago Think Tank* on the topic, Coaching Couples by Telephone. The participants and I had a lively discuss, and the featured article for this issue of The Conscious Relationship focuses on the telephone as a powerful medium for relationship coaching with couples and other clients who seek out the services of a relationship coach.

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Online Therapy Catching On In Australia

Online Therapy Catching On In Australia | Gov Monitor:

Online therapy sessions could deliver help to thousands of Australians including women seeking help with domestic violence and country people whose self-reliance, heavy work schedule and geographic isolation rule out seeing a therapist face-to-face.

A review of technology use in therapy, counselling and dispute resolution by the Australian Institute of Family Studies has shown counselling in cyberspace holds “a great deal of promise”.

The Institute’s Elly Robinson says the increasing proliferation of online therapy sites offers an alternative source of help that may suit some clients with some types of problems.

“It’s astonishing that no more than a generation separates everyday users of computers, mobile phones and the internet from people for whom these tools are completely foreign,” Elly Robinson said.

“Yet there are signs that online therapy could be helpful for rural people, single parents at home, people dealing with issues of violence, or those who want anonymity and the privacy of accessing a service in the comfort of their own home,” she said.

Young people familiar with technology may be particularly suited to online therapy. However people over forty, more marginalised groups and the computer illiterate are less likely to be suited to online treatment.

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