Psyberspace

Dave Slusher interview John Buckman of Magnatune in this IT Conversations As I write this I am streaming a beautiful mp3 from Ehren Starks. And the whole concept has totally grabbed me – the future of music is here! No more kazaa. No more fat cat record labels. Look, I even get something like the record cover or CD booklet, bios and this great pic of the artists:
. I began by listening to a Jazz m3u from the Genre site giving me urges to go the specific artists. I have enjoyed some but in a few hours of exploring I have not found anything really great. It is the cocept that is good, but an it produce great music? I hope so.

The philosophy is summed up here:

# I thought: why not make a record label that has a clue? That helps artists get exposure, make at least as much money they would make with traditional labels, and help them get fans and concerts.
# Magnatune is my project. The goal is to find a way to run a record label in the Internet Reality: file trading, Internet Radio, musicians’ rights, the whole nine-yards.

Hi from the Palm with wi-fi & bluetooth. I began this post using my Tungsten T3 & the wi-fi card – and am editing it while having dinner, using bluetooth & my mobile phone. I have it working more or less as I want.

The web pro browser will not do all sites, eg Gmail wont work.

For all that I love being connected on the go!

In so many ways I am more integrated with cyberspace all the time.

I experience it as living in a new environment…

Psychotherapy and Eclecticism: I stumbles onto this site from Google news, and there were a couple of interesting articles.

Moreover, no one is really ‘knowledgeable’ about how best to combine differing treatments. Little evidence is available with which to inform eclecticism. Hence, although mixing techniques is a constant temptation in therapy sessions, it is best avoided. The risk inherent in eclecticism is that therapists will fall into idiosyncratic approaches, as they did in the pre-empirical past. It’s important that psychiatric residents be trained in carefully defined treatments (psychodynamic, cognitive, and so forth) so that such eclecticism—a euphemism for entropy—is minimized.

John C. Markowitz, M.D.

In my own psychotherapy journey I went from an eclectic start to a very focussed & pure psychodrama stage… have I lost that to eclecticism as I have learnt more about Jung and analytical practitioners? My approach is not so much eclectic as a comfortable old hours which retains it character but has had some efficient modifications well incorporated all in keeping with its original style. Of course I would challenge his whole notion of pre and post empirical times. The past was quite empirical, perhaps more thasn he thinks, and the present is not as empirical as it might seem, and anyway empirical is not really the right word.

Still his point about the muddied eclecticism makes sense, though it might not really include what happans in the post purity stage in the case of experienced clinicians.

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The Oklahoma Daily Online Edition:

Wampold said he wanted to show his audience the ‘side effects’ of psychotherapy.
‘The side effects of psychotherapy are increased productivity, increased libido, increased well-being, inclining marital satisfaction and acquisition of coping skills with long-term benefits,’ he said.
Psychotherapy also works in other positive ways, Wampold said.
‘There is an emotionally charged confiding relationship with a helping person,’ he said.

Good to hear good things about my trade!

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Wired 13.04: VIEW An intro by Bruce Stirling. Covers it well.

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Lake Wakatipu Queenstown

G’day World 7 Can only take so much of these guys – but they entertained me as I walked up the Queenstown Hill.

The Conference is over and I spent the afternoon walking, contemplating on the conference and the value of having such a community and then listening to podcasts. This IT Conversations was interesting, From the Labs :

In this session from the Web 2.0 Conference, you’ll get to hear some of the most intriguing new developments from three of the biggest R&D shops in the world: IBM, Google and Microsoft.

OK, it may be capitalism but they are exploring and collaborating.

Michael Grohagan added two pods to the mix: Reel Reviews – Assault On Precinct 13, Reel Reviews – Contempt. The last one I still want to see, sounds good. The first one sounds ok, but tonight, as it happens I saw the remake in the Queenstown Embassy. It was ok. Interestingly this movie was based on Rio Bravo which gets an 8.00 in the IMDB.

Abichal.com Billy Collins – The Night House:

And the mind gets up too, puts on a robe
And goes downstairs, lights a cigarette,
And opens a book on engineering.
Even the conscience awakens
And roams from room to room in the dark,
Darting away from every mirror like a strange fish.

This is a snippet from the oem read by the chairperson of the Council meeting I went to – beautiful way to start the meeting as we gather together and also gather our inner bits for the work ahead. Made me want a smoke.

This one was read out the next day: The First Dream Beautiful! And this one:
I Chop Some Parsley While Listening to Art Blakey’s Version of Three Blind Mice

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