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Here is a list of 40 good Psychology blogs,
which Psychology blogs do you read regularly? http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/07/40-superb-psychology-blogs.php -J. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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I am the only person in the world who doesnt read blogs?
But I have to say this site looks interesting. May Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([hidden email]) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > [Original Message] > From: Jochen Fromm <[hidden email]> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]> > Date: 9/3/2009 7:17:24 PM > Subject: [FRIAM] Psychology Blogs > > Here is a list of 40 good Psychology blogs, > which Psychology blogs do you read regularly? > http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/07/40-superb-psychology-blogs.php > > -J. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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That you didn't read blogs would surprise me, as interested as you are in *other* people's opinions...
;-} --Doug On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Nicholas Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote: I am the only person in the world who doesnt read blogs? -- Doug Roberts [hidden email] [hidden email] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
> That you didn't read blogs would surprise me, as interested as you > are in *other* people's opinions... To be fair, following blogs can be difficult. So many interesting ones, so little time. Tom Johnson does a great job at it .. Tom: do you use some sort of aggregator? Or just rss feeds? The browser I use makes it fairly easy to follow blogs via rss feeds. But I ran into trouble when I followed several really busy blogs via rss -- I'd end up with 100 entries within a day or so. So I break blog usage into three modes: - RSS feeds for 20-30 blogs that publish daily or less. - Direct links to the busy blogs that I care about. - And best of all FRIAM and other great groups who point things out to me! -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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I just put it all into Google Reader and star the stuff I might want
to go back to read later. If I get too far behind, I just mark it all read and go on. -- rec -- On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Owen Densmore<[hidden email]> wrote: > On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: >> >> That you didn't read blogs would surprise me, as interested as you are in >> *other* people's opinions... > > > To be fair, following blogs can be difficult. So many interesting ones, so > little time. > > Tom Johnson does a great job at it .. Tom: do you use some sort of > aggregator? Or just rss feeds? > > The browser I use makes it fairly easy to follow blogs via rss feeds. But I > ran into trouble when I followed several really busy blogs via rss -- I'd > end up with 100 entries within a day or so. > > So I break blog usage into three modes: > - RSS feeds for 20-30 blogs that publish daily or less. > - Direct links to the busy blogs that I care about. > - And best of all FRIAM and other great groups who point things out to me! > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> I just put it all into Google Reader and star the stuff I might want > to go back to read later. If I get too far behind, I just mark it all > read and go on. > > -- rec -- The problem is that you are a computer pro. I doubt you could show others how to think in this fashion. You need to understand blogs, and that they are article based with dates. You'd have to explain RSS feeds as a notification stunt. You'd have to explain that there are ways to use the feeds: Google Reader, Browser functionalities, Aggregators, and so on. It really is hard, at least at the conceptual level for non-geeks. I remember *several* folks at the complex begging for chats on "how to use the web" so to speak. We never got around to it, but boy would it be useful. Don had a few "barn raising" sessions: come with your laptop and we'll show you how to use the wiki or how to use forums. Maybe we ought to go back to that? -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 09/03/2009 03:35 PM:
> I remember *several* folks at the complex begging for chats on "how to > use the web" so to speak. We never got around to it, but boy would it > be useful. Don had a few "barn raising" sessions: come with your laptop > and we'll show you how to use the wiki or how to use forums. Maybe we > ought to go back to that? The trouble with this sort of thing is that (I posit) that the internet has been successful because of the low-overhead (read "I can use it however I want because it's simple and composable") protocols. Adding layers of abstraction like "etiquette" and how to (properly) use it are quickly rendered obsolete. A better set of howtos would target _very_ specific and concrete actions... like, how to find out who added that clearly biased clause to the Wikipedia entry on Haskell. [grin] Or, how to cross-correlate forums to find out whether a blogger is using another identity to comment on his own blog entries. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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It may be the Berkeley Relic speaking in me, but I have often found
"ettiquette" to be the next door neighbor of fascism. Do you all remember the "Sandwich Nazi" of Seinfeld? N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([hidden email]) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > [Original Message] > From: glen e. p. ropella <[hidden email]> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]> > Date: 9/4/2009 9:06:50 AM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Psychology Blogs > > Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 09/03/2009 03:35 PM: > > I remember *several* folks at the complex begging for chats on "how to > > use the web" so to speak. We never got around to it, but boy would it > > be useful. Don had a few "barn raising" sessions: come with your laptop > > and we'll show you how to use the wiki or how to use forums. Maybe we > > ought to go back to that? > > The trouble with this sort of thing is that (I posit) that the internet > has been successful because of the low-overhead (read "I can use it > however I want because it's simple and composable") protocols. Adding > layers of abstraction like "etiquette" and how to (properly) use it are > quickly rendered obsolete. > > A better set of howtos would target _very_ specific and concrete > actions... like, how to find out who added that clearly biased clause to > the Wikipedia entry on Haskell. [grin] Or, how to cross-correlate > forums to find out whether a blogger is using another identity to > comment on his own blog entries. > > -- > glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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Thus spake Nicholas Thompson circa 09-09-04 01:18 PM:
> It may be the Berkeley Relic speaking in me, but I have often found > "ettiquette" to be the next door neighbor of fascism. It doesn't ring the same bells for me. I'm fond of Eco's (vague but indicating) characteristics of fascism: 1. cult of tradition 2. luddism/irrationalism 3. action for action's sake 4. anti-critical 5. fear of dissension 6. appeal to the frustrated middle 7. pervasive belief in conspiracy 8. the myopic underdog 9. life is warfare 10. contempt for underlings 11. herophilia or glorification of martyrdom 12. conflation of the biological with the social 13. abstracted (ideal, not real) body politic 14. newspeak And I don't really see a good place to put etiquette. I suppose various colors of it could fall under (1), (4), (5), and (14)... and, perhaps (2) and (8) on a stretch. But, mostly, etiquette is just an attempt to govern based on a minimal, civilized, set of soft rules. Everything anti-fascist can still take place within the bounds of etiquette. But the thing I was trying to point out was that any "standard of behavior" over and above what is possible is easily punctured when the underlying components are simple and easily composed. A great example is a unix shell. An interesting example is, say, RESTful web development. A self-referencing example is the recent discussion of kitchen-sink ABM frameworks. A HowTo on "how to use a wiki" is a lot like one on "how to build an ABM". But a HowTo on "how to build a page graph in a wiki" is much more tenable, even though it's still multivalent. The more specific and concrete you get, the more likely you'll be successful. (... unless your goal is to use large catch-all buzzwords to get people excited without giving them any real tools they can take home with them, in which case you want to be as general and abstract as possible.) A more reflective point about puncturing standards of behavior (e.g. Ikea's recent font change) is that when a subset of the participants _expect_ an easily punctured standard, innovative participants will inevitably be considered rude or as not being "team players". I think this is why the internet intensifies people's feelings that others are rude or obnoxious.... because the internet consists of simple, easily composed things that no matter what organization one chooses for her construct, it will violate some other person's standard. That also leads to a much larger number of "should" statements... "One should never use orange text on a blue background!" [grin] -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
"How to use the web" was Re: Psychology Blogs
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I agree presenting specific stories and examples at the Complex of How
I use the web could be very interesting. Presenters can declare
their topic ahead of time so that advanced/cognoscenti users can pick
and choose. Perhaps a series of "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the Internet/Facebook/Blogging/Wikis/<topic>" might be a
nice break from the more techy sessions. Any volunteers?
Nick: you are not alone - FWIW, I don't read (or write) blogs either. Robert C glen e. p. ropella wrote: Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 09/03/2009 03:35 PM: ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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Not a psychology blog. Well, actually, yes it is: http://peopleofwalmart.com/
It has definitely gone viral. --Doug On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Robert Cordingley <[hidden email]> wrote:
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I really like the Ignite! format.
http://www.ignite-nm.com/ The next one at sfComplex is September 15 and while there are enough speakers (11) for a great event, I suspect there might be room for a few more (@ 5 minutes each). The 5 minute restriction means you can almost hold your breath through a given talk if you need to, and conversely the speaker is motivated to actually be concise enough to say something interesting or meaningful in those five minutes. - Steve Robert Cordingley wrote: > I agree presenting specific stories and examples at the Complex of > /How I use the web /could be very interesting. Presenters can declare > their topic ahead of time so that advanced/cognoscenti users can pick > and choose. Perhaps a series of "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and > Love the Internet/Facebook/Blogging/Wikis/<topic>" might be a nice > break from the more techy sessions. Any volunteers? > > Nick: you are not alone - FWIW, I don't read (or write) blogs either. > > Robert C > > glen e. p. ropella wrote: >> Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 09/03/2009 03:35 PM: >> >>> I remember *several* folks at the complex begging for chats on "how to >>> use the web" so to speak. We never got around to it, but boy would it >>> be useful. Don had a few "barn raising" sessions: come with your laptop >>> and we'll show you how to use the wiki or how to use forums. Maybe we >>> ought to go back to that? >>> >> >> The trouble with this sort of thing is that (I posit) that the internet >> has been successful because of the low-overhead (read "I can use it >> however I want because it's simple and composable") protocols. Adding >> layers of abstraction like "etiquette" and how to (properly) use it are >> quickly rendered obsolete. >> >> A better set of howtos would target _very_ specific and concrete >> actions... like, how to find out who added that clearly biased clause to >> the Wikipedia entry on Haskell. [grin] Or, how to cross-correlate >> forums to find out whether a blogger is using another identity to >> comment on his own blog entries. >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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Douglas Roberts wrote:
> Not a psychology blog. Well, actually, yes it is: > http://peopleofwalmart.com/ > I would contribute to this blog, excepting that I'd have to actually go INTO WalMart. I used to think this was a snobbish position, now I am one. I prefer photo blogs to the written... http://blogorythmic.blogspot.com/ A chronicle of what catches one's eye/fancy. Limited Commentary. A natural product of camera/internet capable phones and Web 2.0 . ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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Alert! The Sept 15 date Ignite conflicts with the Ulam lectures:
http://santafe.edu/events/abstract/1498 http://santafe.edu/events/abstract/1625 http://santafe.edu/events/abstract/1626 This year the Ulam lectures honor Murray Gell-Mann's 80th birthday. There are apparently three separate lectures rather than the usual 3 lectures by the same presenter. I note that Ignite starts 1 1/2 hr earlier so maybe not a huge problem? -- Owen On Sep 5, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > I really like the Ignite! format. > http://www.ignite-nm.com/ > > The next one at sfComplex is September 15 and while there are enough > speakers (11) for a great event, I suspect there might be room for a > few more (@ 5 minutes each). > > The 5 minute restriction means you can almost hold your breath > through a given talk if you need to, and conversely the speaker is > motivated to actually be concise enough to say something interesting > or meaningful in those five minutes. > > - Steve > > Robert Cordingley wrote: >> I agree presenting specific stories and examples at the Complex of / >> How I use the web /could be very interesting. Presenters can >> declare their topic ahead of time so that advanced/cognoscenti >> users can pick and choose. Perhaps a series of "How I Learned to >> Stop Worrying and Love the Internet/Facebook/Blogging/Wikis/ >> <topic>" might be a nice break from the more techy sessions. Any >> volunteers? >> >> Nick: you are not alone - FWIW, I don't read (or write) blogs either. >> >> Robert C >> >> glen e. p. ropella wrote: >>> Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 09/03/2009 03:35 PM: >>> >>>> I remember *several* folks at the complex begging for chats on >>>> "how to >>>> use the web" so to speak. We never got around to it, but boy >>>> would it >>>> be useful. Don had a few "barn raising" sessions: come with your >>>> laptop >>>> and we'll show you how to use the wiki or how to use forums. >>>> Maybe we >>>> ought to go back to that? >>>> >>> >>> The trouble with this sort of thing is that (I posit) that the >>> internet >>> has been successful because of the low-overhead (read "I can use it >>> however I want because it's simple and composable") protocols. >>> Adding >>> layers of abstraction like "etiquette" and how to (properly) use >>> it are >>> quickly rendered obsolete. >>> >>> A better set of howtos would target _very_ specific and concrete >>> actions... like, how to find out who added that clearly biased >>> clause to >>> the Wikipedia entry on Haskell. [grin] Or, how to cross-correlate >>> forums to find out whether a blogger is using another identity to >>> comment on his own blog entries. >>> >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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I *new* you could not resist blogging...
Nice pics. --Doug On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Steve Smith wrote:
> Douglas Roberts wrote: >> Not a psychology blog. Well, actually, yes it is: >> http://peopleofwalmart.com/ >> > I would contribute to this blog, excepting that I'd have to actually > go INTO WalMart. Fwiw, it turns out you can see some of the same things at the Santa Fe Whole Foods.. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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On Sep 5, 2009, at 8:49 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Fwiw, it turns out you can see some of the same things at the Santa > Fe Whole Foods.. No. No hubris. -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Steve Smith wrote: >> Douglas Roberts wrote: >>> Not a psychology blog. Well, actually, yes it is: >>> http://peopleofwalmart.com/ >>> >> I would contribute to this blog, excepting that I'd have to actually >> go INTO WalMart. > Fwiw, it turns out you can see some of the same things at the Santa Fe > Whole Foods.. Good Point... I've been referring to Whole Foods as "WalMart for Yuppies" since it opened. I don't go in there much either. Next time I'll remember to use my camera to illustrate the point. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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Owen --
An excellent point to Roger and the rest of us. Frankly, I struggle with my RSS feeds: at present, Bloglines has me at 576, which is probably on the high end of most users. Still, I like them largely because I selected them, which suggests a certain echo chamber bias. I read probably 20% within a week, another 30% within 30 days, and the remainder within 90 days. The latency bothers me a bit, since time matters somewhat, but I'm unlikely to devote more than about 20 hours/week to blogs directly. It's much better than surfing around to each, however. I'd like to read some blogs more frequently (bOING bOING, for example), but find that the number of entries fills up quickly, and when I'm scanning, I'm much more likely to go for my more macroeconomic blogs that have had 10 entries since last I looked than those that have had 150. Maybe there's an interesting opportunity for blogs to optimize posting frequency, bearing in mind Machiavelli's admonition: Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. (probably not the best translation, but the best I could find on the Internets). - Claiborne Booker - From: Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]> Sent: Thu, Sep 3, 2009 4:35 pm Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Psychology Blogs
On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> I just put it all into Google Reader and star the stuff I might want > to go back to read later. If I get too far behind, I just mark it all > read and go on. > > -- rec -- The problem is that you are a computer pro. I doubt you could show others how to think in this fashion. You need to understand blogs, and that they are article based with dates. You'd have to explain RSS feeds as a notification stunt. You'd have to explain that there are ways to use the feeds: Google Reader, Browser functionalities, Aggregators, and so on. It really is hard, at least at the conceptual level for non-geeks. I remember *several* folks at the complex begging for chats on "how to use the web" so to speak. We never got around to it, but boy would it be useful. Don had a few "barn raising" sessions: come with your laptop and we'll show you how to use the wiki or how to use forums. Maybe we ought to go back to that? -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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