10 (+) Articles for Improving Your Mental Hygiene (Vol. 1.0)

A list of ten articles dealing with topics such as: leading, following, awareness, mindfulness, constructive living, esoteric thought, greatness, media ecology, critical thinking, and existence. 1. Lee Thayer: There is Only One Way to Achieve Greatness 2. Mindfulness: Finding Our Own Paths: Entering Awareness 3. RAWilson: Robert Anton Wilson: Thoughts 4. Lee Thayer: Excerpt from [...]

Fame and Social Media: A Fragment

Image via Wikipedia Why are so many people, myself included, connecting to and engaging in online communities? Are “listening to the conversation” and “sharing,” the two main reasons that many of us participate in social media? Perhaps, it’s the spreading of “personal branding” that excites us, gives us the chance to personally manage and influence [...]

A Belated Introduction to this Enterprise

Earlier this year, there was a void in my creative life. Perhaps, it was the lethargy of living for so long in a foreign country, amidst a foreign tongue, falling out of touch with artistic communities in the USA and so on. Friends leave. The day job repeats its yearly cycle. All those nice “daily [...]

Friendfeed Through a Systems Looking Glass: Feeding the Beast

The following is a systems approach to the increasingly popular website Friendfeed. Recently, there have been many articles written about this site (I will provide links at the end of this post). I have written what follows through a Media Ecology systems framework with the hopes of “fleshing out” the system known as “Friendfeed.” The [...]

Web 3.0: Social Hybrid

Today, I read the following article which discusses speculations regarding Web 3.0 and asks the question, “What would you like Web 3.0 to be?” The article is from Soshable and can be read here: Soshable: Web 3.0 Webster defines “hybrid” in the following way: 1: an offspring of two animals or plants of different races, [...]

A Messy Marco-Analysis of Social Media: The Labyrinthine Self

Image from WikipediaThe following is a messy macro-analysis of social media and I hope to elucidate these ideas in the coming weeks. Please bear with me. Also, if you have spent time with what is talked about here, please get in touch, suggest links, propose theories, probes, ideas, etc. I support fragmentation. It seems that [...]