Psyberspace

The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond

I anatomize a successful open-source project, fetchmail, that was run as a deliberate test of some surprising theories about software engineering suggested by the history of Linux. I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the “cathedral” model of most of the commercial world versus the “bazaar” model of the Linux world. I show that these models derive from opposing assumptions about the nature of the software-debugging task. I then make a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”, suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software.

Wanted this link handy. It keeps coming up. Damn. I dont actually like the fundamental idea here, but it is still quite a seminal essay!

EDUCAUSE Review, September/October 2000

Geography of the Web – Gunderloy

But then, the web isn’t really a geography. Or if it is, it’s a geography akin to that of dreams and literature as well as to that of the physical world.

From Mike Gunderloy’s short article. He maintains his own site with journal and weblog, Larkfarm as well as cybering

Psybernet Resources for Hosts of Internet Mailing Lists and Conferences
Useful, and will make it into a blog one day so i can add more resources easily. Let me know if you have items you think should go here.

The Economies of Online Cooperation:

The Internet is filled with junk and jerks. It is commonplace for inhabitant of the Internet to complain bitterly about the lack of cooperation, decorum, and useful information. The signal-to-noise ratio, it is said, is bad and getting worse.

Even a casual trip through cyberspace will turn up evidence of hostility, selfishness, and simple nonsense. Yet the wonder of the Internet is not that there is so much noise, but that there is any significant cooperation at all. Given that online interaction is relatively anonymous, that there is no central authority, and that it is difficult or impossible to impose monetary or physical sanctions on someone, it is striking that the Internet is not literally a war of all against all. For a student of social order, what needs to be explained is not the amount of conflict but the great amount of sharing and cooperation that does occur in online communities.

This might be useful in the “commodification” discussion.

The C.G. Jung Page:

The Jung Page was founded in 1995 to encourage new psychological ideas and conversations about what it means to be human in our time and place

This is a new address for the jung page. I thought it had gone defunct. A good place to go.

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You will see that I have ustalled one! It works well.

Wired 8.04: Why the future doesn’t need us. By Bill Joy

I saw that Dolores O’Brien had written a comment on this article so bought Wired one more time. However it is here online all along. Here is Dolore’s article: http://www.cgjung.com/psychtech/endangered.html