Psyberspace

I just found a Jungian site I have not seen before! Headline Muse.com Some interesting stuff, such as this: Film Commentary: “Wake Up Neo”: The Matrix of C.G. Jung Tom Flynn. Or this: Terrorisn is the Alchemy of the Soul by Gene C. Toews.

Eric Norlin writes in the TDCRC Mailing list:

One of the key characteristics of digital identity is the fact that it acts as an enabler. Real world identity is inalienable at birth. It is not given to you, per se. Virtual identity does not require an authentication to partake — log on to a network and begin (assuming it’s a public network). But digital identity enables — as a bridge between the real and virtual worlds, it allows an individual entity (be they person, device, computer or organization) to interact in a privileged domain.

(Found via Doc)

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How to do it
The first time you use an acronym, mark it up with an tag, like this: The first time you use an acronym, mark it up with an <acronym> tag, like this:

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This item is hot on daypop and no wonder. Mark has created profiles of users who would benefit. Lovely, see Bill’s story for instance.

Janis Ian writes what is sort of well known and obvious, but great to hear from someone like her.

It’s absurd for us, as artists, to sanction – or countenance – the shutting down of something like this. It’s sheer stupidity to rejoice at the Napster decision. Short-sighted, and ignorant.

Free exposure is practically a thing of the past for entertainers. Getting your record played at radio costs more money than most of us dream of ever earning. Free downloading gives a chance to every do-it-yourselfer out there.

Every act that can’t get signed to a major, for whatever reason, can reach literally millions of new listeners, enticing them to buy the CD and come to the concerts. Where else can a new act, or one that doesn’t have a label deal, get that kind of exposure? As artists, we have the ear of the masses. We have the trust of the masses. By speaking out in our concerts and in the press, we can do a great deal to damp this hysteria, and put the blame for the sad state of our industry right back where it belongs – in the laps of record companies, radio programmers, and our own apparent inability to organize ourselves in order to better our own lives – and those of our fans. If we don’t take the reins, no one will.

I wish some NZ would do the same, perhaps they have?

PETER MEYERS writes in the NYT, A Dispute Over Wireless Networks

Many Wi-Fi networks, intentionally or otherwise, allow passers-by to use the networks without any password. And there are tools that amplify the Wi-Fi radio signal, enabling it to be delivered over an even larger area, like a park.

Many broadband providers fear that every user of a free wireless network is one less paying customer. “Our goal is just to protect our customer base,” said Mr. Rosenblum, adding that Time Warner Cable currently had no plans to extend this enforcement campaign to other areas that it serves.

Maybe it is a fantasy and I just dont get the science, but I have a sense that companies are trying to bottle air and sell it, and stop anyone from breathing who does not pay up. Maybe there are some gadgets involved and some regulations required, but that is about it.

It is probably like music. Once there was a lot of cost in copying and distributing music. Now that is free but the old companies will not accept that. They want to make it scarce by technological and legal means. Now that is perverse use of tools (though probably familiar law.)

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In a BBC News item Write here, right now Mark Ward writes, quoting Matt Jones:

The warchalks are intended to let people know about the open nodes that many people are happy for others to share.

Jones said he did not think there was much danger that it would be taken over by anyone malicious to post notice of corporate networks that are not doing enough to protect themselves.

“If someone is chalking it up they are doing something quite beneficial to the network operators by saying I have spotted this. Then they can decide to secure it or instigate a free wireless type scenario.”

This is an item that makes the whole thing easier to grasp if it is all a bit new – as it was for me. I’d love this – hope there are these hotspots wherever I go!

There is a problem with the lain item below, can’t edit it. Interesting stuff though – there is something very psyberspacy about it all. I want to explore it more. It is addressing the Matrix type stuff but perhaps in a more psychological way? I don’t get it yet. Is it written by Japanese? Is “psyche” a translation from the Japanese, or does it go back to the Greeks via the west?

Browsing this thoughtful, analytical site: zeligConf I found and liked this item from Aris Papathéodorou — Networks for technical/scientific knowledge exchange:

In concrete terms, this means that the productive cooperation practices, well tried in software, can and must be extended to other cognitive fields, and to other social subjects. Beyond the slogan, it is about inventing now social and material structures making possible an effective circulation of technical knowledge, of peculiar uses and practical innovations. It is about creating structures of public access to skills involved in a full use of the potentialities of free software and Internet, to give every user the possibility to access the “source code” of communication’s technosciences.

That this should be under threat, that it has become an issue to fight for is so sad. So much good will! So much knowledge and it is somehow being well repressed, almost without our realising it. We are creeping toward the world described in Richard Stallman’s short story: The Right to Read. (link to the Google cached version as I could not get to the GNU site’s version.)

I linked to this site ages ago too.