the other day i went to a party at my friend bonnie’s place. with me being there, of course at one point the talk turned to the internet. one of the lovely guests, pam, mentioned that everyone in her family comes up with something when they google their names – but not she! i said… Continue reading a post for pam
Category: the net
blogging and neuroscience
browsing through the eide neurolearning blog, which i follow because of my interest in learning disabilities (or “alternative learning”), i found a posting on “bloggers’ brains”. here is an excerpt, which i have supplemented with a few links. some of the things mentioned are a bit obvious but i found it interesting to look at… Continue reading blogging and neuroscience
breaking the chains of chain letters
this is another post about chain letters (you may remember one a few weeks ago about a petition type chain letter). i’d like to explain what i find disturbing about another type – the prayer chain letter. chain letters are a form of emotional extortion, mixing very positive sentiments with threats or at least manipulation.… Continue reading breaking the chains of chain letters
the mystery of anorexia blogs
today i thought i’d surf around for some blogs on anorexia. i was looking for active, relatively up-to-date blogs that would talk about the experience of living with or recovering from anorexia, or perhaps the experience of living with or caring about someone with anorexia. i thought it would be easy – it’s a well-known… Continue reading the mystery of anorexia blogs
understanding internet users
(the following entry is a retreat of something i posted back in january. when i transferred my blog over from blogger, for some reason none of the material from january made it over here. so i’ll post some of the posts anew.) a while ago i skulked around the internet again, using wordtracker to find… Continue reading understanding internet users
understanding email chain letters
the other day i received an email from a friend. it started with the ominous “please read and pass on”. immediately my antennae went up; in my experience, 95% of such emails turn out to be hoaxes. the friend of mine who passed the email on to me is an ex teacher, has an excellent… Continue reading understanding email chain letters
understanding spammers
okay, here is something that i absolutely have to get off my chest: what goes on in the head of spammers? and what, specifically, is the process of coming up with these amazing names, like abhorrence p. versifying amateurism g. causal ambiguities u. magnetos annihilation j. silliness arnulfo mcleod (more at the end of this… Continue reading understanding spammers
the psychology of cyberspace
john suler of rider university on the psychology of cyberspace, with titallating topics like cyberspace as psychological space cyberspace as dream world bringing online and offline living together and of course it includes a (large!) section on online therapy. in the myths of online therapy, there are two interesting comments: Many sexual abuse survivors report
mood tracking software
medicalnews tells us today Dutch researcher Maarten de Rijke and his co-workers Gilad Mishne and Krisztian Balog have developed a new programme that can trace and explain significant changes in mood patterns on the Internet. MoodViews is a collection of instruments that maps the mood of bloggers as they write their message. this is the… Continue reading mood tracking software
guided visualizations
here are some working, good quality links to online audio guided meditations http://www.beliefnet.com/index/index_207.html http://csd.mcmaster.ca/natural_high/cd.htm http://www.soundstrue.com (the full versions are for sale but the samples are already quite nice) http://www.learningmeditation.com