From Clive Thompson on the New Literacy in Wired.
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My Activity Stream
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?
Can the Empire survive? I doubt it!
Excellent site. Puts the whole business in perspective.
Americans have long believed that the very notion of empire is an offense against our democratic heritage, yet in recent months, these two words — American empire — have been on everyone’s lips. At this moment of unprecedented economic and military strength, the leaders of the United States have embraced imperial ambitions openly. How did we get to this point? And what lies down the road?
Recent good article:
Is America Hooked on War? – CBS News
This is a good article too, though I wonder if addition is the right metaphor? It implies that if you went into recovery youd have a new rich life. The imperialism is more like food and water for capitalism than a drug. No imperialism, no USA as we know it. And it will come sooner than we think.
The Red Book
Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious – NYTimes.com:
The Holy Grail of the Unconscious * Sign in to Recommend * Twitter * Sign In to E-Mail * Print * ShareClose o Linkedin o Digg o Facebook o Mixx o MySpace o Yahoo! Buzz o Permalink o Article Tools Sponsored By By SARA CORBETT Published: September 16, 2009 This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland. The book is big and heavy and its spine is etched with gold letters that say “Liber Novus,” which is Latin for “New Book.” Its pages are made from thick cream-colored parchment and filled with paintings of otherworldly creatures and handwritten dialogues with gods and devils. If you didn’t know the book’s vintage, you might confuse it for a lost medieval tome.
Weekly Digest of Tweets 2009-09-20
Tweets follow.
Goodbye, CompuServe!
I was on that thing for a few years! I even have some archives on floppydisks!
Med Sig – my first experience of online conversation. Vicious debates about CBT – it was not the dominant modality back then.
I hope they do have archives somewhere.
Goodbye, CompuServe! (We thought you already died) – Ars Technica:
Goodbye, CompuServe! (We thought you already died) Remember CompuServe? While many of us thought it had already died years ago, it turns out that AOL was keeping it on life support—up until this month. With the decision to finally shut the 30-year-old service down, Ars reminisces about the olden days of the Internet.
Clean Language & David Grove
I have a notion of “clean language’ as language devoid of blame or shaming. As in NVC. This is different. I am not sure I fully get it, but it is language that simply evokes the phenomenology in the client.
This is NLP, but I can overcome my resistance as I read stuff from David Grove. A New Zealand Maori psychotherapist.
Quotes follow.
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Mental Illness
Interesting write up on the Dunedin study.
A long-term tracking study of more than 1,000 New Zealanders from birth to age 32 suggests that people vastly underreport the amount of mental illness they’ve suffered when asked to recall their history years after the fact.
The problem I see with this is not in the study or the data, I have heard an excellent presentation on this study.
There is a problem though. Who decides what is mental illness?
Social, political & cultural problems, such as poor education, poverty, ignorance about relationships & parenting, disenfranchisement, advertising and trashy media, disinformation, excessive power of pharmaceutical companies, racism, sexism and society’s sanction of violence do lead to personal deficits.
The problem with calling those deficits illness is two fold: one it personalises the social & political deficiencies. Secondly it undermines seeking personal help as it comes at the price of being seen as ill.
The solution is not to make it more socially acceptable to accept such labels as the Mental Health foundation is trying to do. That is well intentioned and would be ok if there was a better culture around assessing what mental illness really is.
At the heart of many of the conditions that are not illness is the belief that one is not OK. Counselling often involves re-learning that one is OK. It is not useful to learn “I am ill, but that is OK” when that leads to a passivity and acceptance of an ill and depressed lifestyle. A belief that somewhere in my chemicals I can’t help it, when really no such chemical situation exists, at least not one that can be shown to be more at the root of the problem than the mental illness diagnosis itself.
Rss Cloud WordPress Plugin
I have added the RSS Cloud plugin for WordPress to this blog.
I know it means real time updates on for anyone who gets the RSS feed in an RSS Cloud enabled aggregator like River2 …
This will mean … what in practice?
Are WordPress blogs also able to instantly see the updates from this in the sidebar? I’ll check in my art blog.
A Few Minutes Later
My Art blog does let a feed from here, but this post did not show up istantly, but then it is not a WordPress.com blog, nor does it have the plugin.
Universal participation in action – a principle for the science of the virtual.
I spoke of Conscious experience in the last post… this is what I was thinking of. A quote from Moreno in Who Shall Survive? follows.
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