What Everyone Should Know About Their Own Minds: 6 Introspective Insights From Psychology

[From PsyBlog: What Everyone Should Know About Their Own Minds: 6 Introspective Insights From Psychology]

some great insights here.

The reading cure

The idea that literature can make us emotionally and physically stronger goes back to Plato.

[From Books | The reading cure]

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This is actually one of my major insights, luckily i share it with many people. It is pretty simple. Great fiction, great books provide models for being, ways of coping, ways of understanding. They help you understand that yes, you are not the great lonely person confronting your challenges new, but that yes, this problem of yours is more or less the same as everyone else’s problems. Literature opens doors for realizing and empathizing.

Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007) provides one clump of essays exploring the use of digitization, mostly from the vantage of museums but considering cultural heritage to span across libraries, galleries, archives, and archaeology as well. [From Preservation and Access Across the Spectrum]

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this looks like an interesting read. i expect we will see more of this material in the next few months.

a sophisticated network visualization of the 297 most visible & influential websites, the “core US political webosphere”. the sites are divided in 4 categories: Conservative, Independent, Mass Media & Progressive [presidentialwatch08.com (map view) & presidentialwatch08.com (trends view)|thnkx Guilhem] [From information aesthetics]

this is a pretty nifty system.