Psyberspace

20 Lies About the War

Bad Subjects: Item by Jonathan Sterne:

The scandal is that there is no scandal.

Orcinus Has an interesting article in PDF on Fascism.

NZOOM – Entertainment – Books

This is what the cover looks like in NZ – nice! I am loving the book. I literally chose this book by the cover, I thought I’d brouse the SF section at Scorpio and see if there were any with nice covers. Usually SF books have the worst covers of all genre. Of course I was also swayed by the authors’s name, even though I have not liked all of his previous books. He coined the word cyberspace perhaps he will pull out another lightening bolt.

Amazon

Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy:

…the core challenges for designing large-scale social software.

An excellent essay.

BLOGGER :: Dano FAQ: “BlogThis!”

Looks like I’ll be back in business – I lost my old Blog this! which slowed me down.

Loyalty Day, 2003 This is surely like a red rag to a bull (or its a joke!) How about we make all web pages red for a week!

From here: History:

Our modern celebration of Mayday as a working class holiday evolved from the struggle for the eight hour day in 1886. May 1, 1886 saw national strikes in the United States and Canada for an eight hour day called by the Knights of Labour. In Chicago police attacked striking workers killing six.

The next day at a demonstration in Haymarket Square to protest the police brutality a bomb exploded in the middle of a crowd of police killing eight of them. The police arrested eight anarchist trade unionists claiming they threw the bombs. To this day the subject is still one of controversy. The question remains whether the bomb was thrown by the workers at the police or whether one of the police’s own agent provocateurs dropped it in their haste to retreat from charging workers.

In what was to become one of the most infamous show trials in America in the 19th century, but certainly not to be the last of such trials against radical workers, the State of Illinois tried the anarchist workingmen for fighting for their rights as much as being the actual bomb throwers. Whether the anarchist workers were guilty or innocent was irrelevant. They were agitators, fomenting revolution and stirring up the working class, and they had to be taught a lesson.

Albert Parsons, August Spies, George Engle and Adolph Fischer were found guilty and executed by the State of Illinois.

In Paris in 1889 the International Working Men’s Association (the First International) declared May 1st an international working class holiday in commemoration of the Haymarket Martyrs. The red flag became the symbol of the blood of working class martyrs in their battle for workers rights.

Mayday, which had been banned for being a holiday of the common people, had been reclaimed once again for the common people.

BACP News
I have always had respect for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy – it has a strong code of ethics and is the basis for many codes around the world. While I am not a member I belong to a similar though more psychotherapy focussed organisation in New Zealand.

The BACP have New guidelines for online therapy – which are summarised here. It is a balanced report. I am pleased to say my Psychotherapy Online practice meets all their recommendations.