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Into the Mystic : Science News Online, Feb. 17, 2001
Scientists confront the hazy realm of spiritual enlightenment
By Bruce Bower

“After spending 8 years training in the meditative practices of Zen Buddhism, neurologist James H. Austin spent a sabbatical year from 1981 to 1982 at the London Zen Center. On a pleasant March morning, while waiting for a subway train on a surface platform and idly glancing down the tracks toward the Thames River, Austin got his first taste of spiritual enlightenment.”

Book Reviews

“One of the most rich subfields of cyberculture studies is, for lack of a better term, cyberfeminism, the study of gender and the Internet in general and the study of feminism and the Net in particular.”

” Recent and relatively recent contributions to this field include Anne Balsamo’s Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women, Lynn Cherny and Elizabeth Reba Weise’s Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace, and Sadie Plant’s Zeros Ones: Digital Women the New Technoculture.

“A new and important contribution is women@internet: Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace, edited by Wendy Harcourt. Our coverage of this book is unique. First, we begin with a review from Kalí Tal, a Professor of Humanities at Arizona International College of The University of Arizona. Next, we feature a lengthy and engaging rejoinder from the book’s editor, Wendy Harcourt. Finally (for the moment at least!), Kalí Tal replies to Harcourt’s rejoinder.

This is interesting stuff. The site is great, it has a walth of reviews and rejoinders and so on. Navigate it by hacking the URL!!!

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The O’reilly book pages are great, they have all I need in a book, the contents, a chapter or two. and stuff around the book -author stories etc.

Id�es Fortes

Digital Revelation

By Richard Thieme

“Context determines content. So too with sacred space.
Whether or not God exists, the mental artifacts we relate to transcendence do – call these symbols “gods.” Though we can’t say how the digital revolution will affect God, we can say how it might impact our gods.

Look at previous shifts in communications technology. The gods worshiped in ancient oral communities vanished when their names were no longer invoked. It is no coincidence that the persons at the center of major contemporary religions – Moses, Jesus, Lao-tzu, Buddha – arose along with the emergence of writing. The invention of the printing press further extended the reach of these new, textual gods. Print enlarged the vocabulary of the community, and people could see themselves with greater subtlety. The gods, consequently, grew more subtle as well.

Now digital media are generating digital gods.
Digital gods are distributed deities, verbs and modifiers rather than nouns. ”

Id�es Fortes were the best thing about WiReD in the old days.

The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner

Contents: The difference between managers and leaders, say the authors, is like night and day. Managers like stability, control through systems, and procedures. Passion and involvement don’t fit into their thinking. Leaders thrive on change, inspiration, passion, listening and equipping.

1. When Leaders Are at Their Best: Five Practices and Ten Commitments

2. What Followers Expect of Their Leaders: Knowing the Other Half of the Story

3. Search for Opportunities: Confronting and Changing the Status Quo

4. Experiment and Take Risks: Learning from Mistakes and Successes

5. Envision the Future: Imagining Ideal Scenarios

6. Enlist Others: Attracting People to Common Purposes

7. Foster Collaboration: Getting People to Work Together

8. Strengthen Others: Sharing Power and Information

9. Set the Example: Leading by Doing

10. Plan Small Wins: Building Commitment to Action

11. Recognize Contributions: Linking Rewards with Performance

12. Celebrate Accomplishments: Valuing the Victories

13. Become a Leader Who Cares and Makes a Difference

The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
(San Francisco CA: Jossey-Bass, 1987) ISBN # 155542211X

Lingua Franca | Breakthrough Books

The History of Reading

We asked five scholars to recommend the best books about reading.

Interesting. For example:

Kathleen E. Welch, professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and author of (MIT, 1999).

“In Cyberliteracy: Navigating the Internet With Awareness (Yale, forthcoming), Laura J. Gurak analyzes the Internet’s four main functional components: speed, reach, anonymity, and interactivity. She uses examples from a number of Web sites to demonstrate how readers now step ‘through the screen.’ Another important book on the history of reading, Andrea Lunsford and Lisa Ede’s (Southern Illinois, 1990), predated—and in fact predicted—much of the collaborative reading and writing that now occurs in cyberspace.”

Thomas Moore “Soul Of Sex”
Interview

The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet (Leonardo Books)

by Ken Goldberg (Editor)

“Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

It may be trite to say that new technology changes the way we see ourselves and the world, but it’s crucial that we explore those changes fully. In The Robot in the Garden, computer scientist Ken Goldberg curates a collection of essays on telerobotics by critics, philosophers, and engineers, addressing questions as fundamental as, “How does mediation affect the knowledge we acquire?”

Durlacher: Creating Community Online

The other one Aldon mentioned.