Walter Logeman: Journal
New Zealand News – – Online Therapy
“Another local online therapist is Kennedy’s mate, psychotherapist Walter Logeman, who started up Psybernet, a site dedicated to “exploring the psyche in cyberspace”.
Barry says wise things and I am also in the news!
See me here: http://www.psybernet.co.nz
Here is an item from Richard Stallman which I find both compelling and sad. After I have struggled hard with GNU/Linux – I now learn that the kernel nay not be free (in the sense of having all the sources available). I have never seen my foray into this area as solely technical but always as part of a sort of noosphere probe. It still is that of course but what my probe is revealing is how big this battle for freedom is. This is not libertarian freedom either – but freedom for people to be able to work together to be creative. Freedom for one generation to be able to build on the creations of the previous. Which is the exact opposite of the freedom to build private empires.
It is very like theological debate isn’t it. I am not really up with the history of that but I imagine whole churches split over such finery. I know I can’t be that ideologically pure – but I am glad that RMS is.
I am not a programmer but I do make web pages and I’d never have been able to do that without the “source” button actually working. Imagine a web that was not open source in that way. It would not have happened at all. What is closed software preventing today?
Just upgraded my old Agent as i am back in XP as I am having a few problems in Linux right now. Thhis is a nice story. I can get by in Windows with the likes of Agent and Mozilla – which is a great browser.
“Do the demands of the GPL cause as much harm as closed-source code?”
Interesting discussion on going into the use of dual licences etc. following what is a flawed opening article. I have a great respect for that GPL! That people cheat and close it off is a sad thing though. Apparently it is easy enough to do a string search to see if that has happened.
“Linux will always be more than the sum of its egos”
This is a rejoinder to the Metcalf thing. I know these are old articles… but I like that about the web – it persists (when it does not rot).
Linux’s ’60s technology, open-sores ideology won’t beat W2K, but what will?
Sad story – how can a bright man be so thick really. He seems not to grasp Free Software, Open Source any better than Marx Lenin or Trotski – and he wants the Pulizter prize?
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Mercury News | 05/11/2002 | Dan Gillmor: Web pioneer looks at ground covered, future
Tim Berners-Lee:
“Assuming we don’t cripple technology, tomorrow’s Web will be dramatically different from today’s. What we have today is a human-readable system, a good one. The coming Web will also be machine-readable, Berners-Lee says, and the implications are enormous.
“This new Web, which Berners-Lee and others call the “Semantic Web,” will be an overlay on the current one. Its most prominent feature will be machines communicating with other machines on our behalf, using tools now under development.
“After his keynote speech, Berners-Lee was asked to describe his view of the future Internet. It will be vastly more flexible and useful than today, he said.
“Our connections will be omnipresent, he said. The context of what we’re doing virtually will move with us from one physical location to another.
“The potential seems unlimited, he said, provided we give innovators a cleanly designed, unencumbered platform on which to make their miracles. We’re in the early days, and that’s exciting to contemplate.”
The context of what we’re doing virtually will move with us from one physical location to another.
That is the line that intigues me and of course that Tim Berners-Lee said it. It is still hard to envisage – because what if the cat-door opening mechanism crashes phenomena, it might kill the cat. Sometimes it might be best done really simply! I hanker after technology that is simple. I wish Deskview had worked!
E-Mail Notification Management
“I like to impose this extra bit of protocol on myself, to underscore that every e-mail is a significant act.”
Jon Udell is one of the few writers who takes a real interest in how our emails work, how groups work online. His column “Tangled in the treads” for Byte always has a good take on this or that aspect of online collaboration. I don’t always agree with the details (or understand the hi-tech stuff) but “that every e-mail is a significant act.” is a fine principle.
This article is about his first look at Outlook.
Salon.com Technology | Use the blog, Luke
“The collective future of blogs lies not in dethroning the New York Times — but in becoming a force that can make sense of the Web’s infinity of links.”
The noosphere will not be built by the NYT. The shape and flow of the networks of links is not just a big wide web, there are forces in various directions – there dynamic, a struggle for outcome. Blogs are part of the benign side. A force for freedom of expression.