Psyberspace

• A Review of Method is the Message: Rethinking McLuhan through Critical Theory
• Camille Paglia Magic of Images
• Marshall Mcluhan, Frank Zingrone, Eric Mcluhan: Essential McLuhan
• Marshall McLuhan: “The Medium is the Message”
• McLuhan Lectures – Deanne Bogdan – Music
• McLuhan Program – About – Visitor Information
• McLuhanisms – Marshall McLuhan
• Media: McLuhan’s Message
• Philip Marchand: Marshall McLuhan
• The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology
• The Official Site of Marshall McLuhan
• understanding media 2: aristotle’s four cause types

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Listening to Live 8 via AOL while looking at pictures. Saw this one from Japan. Making poverty history, scare them into doubling the aid!

Kate and Walter Banks Peninsula on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Click the photo to go to the Set. Finally got these photos up from last year, I loved our tramp! The trouble is putting these up was not on my to do list at all! What is that? Is putting photos up ever on anyones plan to get things done?

Students exhibit tomorrow’s designs They are still doing fun stuff – much like when we visited there a few years ago (2001?) when Josh graduated from computer related design. One thing they do a lot of is exploring what can we substituted for a keyboard, what can be substituted for a screen, and they come up with new stuff all the time.

I like this light roller thing

Now we’ve created a paint roller which you can essentially graffiti with.

Create big pictures here.

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Mappr! Where It’s At. Nice and especially nice that this can be done. Yahoo do have a lock-in to our data, but various aps can get photos out. How does the data lock in affect me? I am committed as I have all the captions and comments and groups on their servers. I am in an Owned community. And the owners are not in it for the community (well maybe some of them are! see esthr posts below). They do need to make the community work or we will all leave in droves once there is a bettr one… who knows how it will all pan out by 2012. That I can have my pix appear here on the blog, and on mappr AND especially in my RSS feeds, where I can see who has added photos is great.

Pity it is not a world map yet! Thanks Amy (who knows the developers) for sending the link.

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EDventure :: investr in Flickr [w corrected link] I blogged about what an innovative user Esthr was, just noticed she is an ownr, as well as a user – a yahoo owner now.

Anothr thought on flickr as blog: It is not so good for “Blog This” Does not let you make links as easily as I have just done now. A flickr RSS feed for my pix. I am sticking with my blog, but whatever the imput it all comes out in the aggregator where I manage my attention.

IT Conversations: Meg Hourihan – Memory Lane I loved this podcast. Especially enjoyed the end where Meg talks about the future – and she is seeing the same sort of major shift happening that I have been blogging about. Web 2.0 stuff. Flickr. Comes through really clearly when she says “I will not read stuff I can’t link to, or that my friends cant link to.” She’s right, how long before that becomes universal? Media is just not one way, if you read it you want to be able to spout on about it and link to it. No more One to Many. Media that lock themselves out of the feeds and the conversations will just die.

I have been full up in my practice for a long time. A lot of f2f clients, a lot of clients online and also some personal commitments. The latter two have eased off and I can now take on some more clients. I have taken the “full up” notice of my website and it will be interesting to see how long it takes before it is back up!

I love doing psychotherapy online. I know that it has a potential for depth and healing. I don’t think it is useful to compare it to f2f work. I have had some clients who prefer it, others who do both, and some who have come because of geographical isolation or for financial reasons ($NZ is more affordable than $US). I know it works and I love doing it, but it does not replace my f2f work. I can only do about a quarter of my case load online. I need time away from the computer, and spend a lot of time there already!

The other thing I love about doing psychotherapy online is that it is an exploration of the psyche. How does medium affect the work? I have learnt a lot about that over the years and I have some surprising insights. They surprised me.

tags: psyber empathy virtuality psyberspace cyberspace waltzzz psychotherapy psyche